Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 5 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 6 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 7 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 8 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 9 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 10 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 11 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 12 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 14 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 15 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 16 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 18 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 19 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |