Example sentences of "[pron] 've [be] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 2 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 5 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 6 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 10 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 11 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 12 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 13 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 14 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 15 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 16 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 17 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 18 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 19 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 20 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 21 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 22 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 23 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 24 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 25 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |