Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 7 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 11 | " Actually I think I 'm rather hungry — I 've been longing for a sandwich . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 14 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 17 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 18 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 19 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |