Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 2 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 3 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 4 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |
| 5 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 7 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 8 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 9 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 10 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 11 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 12 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 13 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 14 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 15 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 16 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 17 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |