Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
| 2 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 3 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 4 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 5 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
| 6 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 7 | Airline stocks , which have been surging for months on a series of high-stakes takeovers , declined after one potential target , US Air , declared lower than expected earnings . |
| 8 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 10 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 11 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 12 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 13 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 15 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 16 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |