Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 2 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 3 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 4 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 5 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 7 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 8 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 9 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 10 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 11 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 13 | We have been addressing two audiences throughout the debate — the outside audience , whom the Opposition want to convince that this is a shock horror experience , and the audience in the House . |
| 14 | An even longer contract is at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , where we have been operating 365 days a year , for the past 24 years . |
| 15 | A company spokeswoman said : ‘ We have been selling 100 bottles a day . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 17 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 18 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 19 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 20 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |