Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 5 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 6 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 7 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 8 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 9 | A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months . |
| 10 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 11 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 12 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 13 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |