Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 3 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 4 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 7 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 10 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 12 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 13 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 14 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |
| 15 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 16 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 18 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 20 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 21 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 22 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 23 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 24 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 25 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 26 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 28 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 29 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 30 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |