Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've [been] [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 2 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 4 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 5 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 6 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 7 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 8 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 9 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 10 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |