Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 4 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 5 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 6 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 7 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 8 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 9 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 10 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 11 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 12 | What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed . |
| 13 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 14 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 15 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 16 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 17 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 18 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 19 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 20 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 21 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 22 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 23 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 24 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 25 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 26 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 27 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 28 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 29 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 30 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |