Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 32 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 33 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 34 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 35 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 36 | ‘ I 've been arrested twice for blowing the horn , ’ he explained . |
| 37 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 38 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been standing outside for ages — wanting to come in , but knowing I should n't . ’ |
| 41 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 43 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 44 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 46 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 47 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 48 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 49 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 50 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 51 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 52 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 53 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 54 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 55 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and include the name of an ORACLE account which has been created solely for the use of the RDBI transfer program . |
| 56 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 57 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 58 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
| 59 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 60 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |