Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 3 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 4 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 6 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 7 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 8 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 13 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 16 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 17 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 18 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've been doing it for |
| 21 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 22 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 23 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 24 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 25 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 26 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 27 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 28 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 29 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |