Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 3 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 4 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 5 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 6 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 7 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 8 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 9 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 11 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 12 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 13 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 14 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 15 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 16 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 17 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |