Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 3 | After a couple of days of complete rest you can do all the things that you have been meaning to do for ages — jobs around the house ; shopping for clothes ; meeting friends for lunch ; having day trips out to places of interest ; doing the garden ; sunbathing ; fruit-picking at the local pick-your-own farm and filling up your freezer ; writing a book you have always meant to write or painting ; seeing all the shows that you are too tired to see during a working week ; and so on . |
| 4 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |