Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 've been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 3 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 4 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 5 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 6 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 11 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 12 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 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 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 19 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 20 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
| 21 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 22 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |