Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 2 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 3 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 5 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 6 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 7 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 8 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 9 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 10 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 11 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 14 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 15 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 16 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 17 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 18 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
| 22 | Darling , I 've been looking everywhere for you ! ’ |
| 23 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
| 24 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 26 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 28 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 29 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 30 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |