Example sentences of "[pron] 've be [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 3 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 4 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 5 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 6 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 7 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 9 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 11 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 12 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 13 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 14 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 15 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 18 | " Actually I think I 'm rather hungry — I 've been longing for a sandwich . |
| 19 | This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems . |
| 20 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 21 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 25 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 26 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 27 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 28 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 29 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 30 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |