Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back
2 I 've been doing that for a long , long time .
3 I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on .
4 I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July .
5 Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English
6 So we 've been doing that with children as well .
7 ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’
8 They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so .
9 They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour .
10 I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't .
11 I know they 've been doing that for ages .
12 But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century .
13 Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time .
14 But they have been saying that for 20 years .
15 By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years .
16 He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima :
17 Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now .
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