Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
2 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
3 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
4 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
5 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
6 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
7 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
8 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
9 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
10 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
11 | He 's been doing it for years . |
12 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
13 | He 's been doing it for years . |
14 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
15 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
16 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
17 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |