Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] them for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 3 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 6 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 7 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 8 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 9 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 10 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 11 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 12 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 13 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 15 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 16 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 17 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |