Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 2 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 4 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 5 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 7 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 8 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 9 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 10 | I 've been claiming benefits for 18 months and this offer is a complete surprise . |
| 11 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 12 | Having granted permission to go ashore , I 've been promised trout for supper , although he 's never caught anything worth eating yet . |
| 13 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 14 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 15 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 16 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 19 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 20 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 21 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 22 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 23 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 24 | They 've been rescuing companies for so long they do it automatically now , I expect . |
| 25 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 26 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |