Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 32 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 33 | I 've been recording for this |
| 34 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 35 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 36 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 37 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 38 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 39 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 41 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 42 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 43 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 44 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 45 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 46 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 47 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 48 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 49 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 50 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 51 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 52 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 53 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 54 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 55 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 56 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 57 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 58 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 59 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |