Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] 've been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 2 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 3 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 4 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 5 | This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems . |
| 6 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |