Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 3 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 4 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 5 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 6 | I carve the meat and prepare vegetables and stuffings — all my life I have been preparing things for somebody ! |
| 7 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |
| 8 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |
| 9 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 10 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 11 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 12 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 13 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 14 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 15 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 16 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |