Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 4 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 5 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've been doing it for |
| 9 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 10 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 13 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 14 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 15 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 16 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 17 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 18 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 19 | We 've been importing it for centuries . |
| 20 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 22 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 23 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 24 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |