Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [been] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 3 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 5 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 6 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 7 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 9 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 10 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 11 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 12 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 13 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 14 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 16 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 17 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 21 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 23 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 24 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 25 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 26 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 27 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 29 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 30 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |