Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 2 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 5 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 6 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 7 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 8 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 9 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 13 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 15 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 16 | He said , ‘ Listen , I 've been married to three actresses and if you want a career , I will send you merrily on your way . |
| 17 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 18 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 19 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 20 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 21 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 22 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 23 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 24 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 25 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 26 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 27 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 28 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 29 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 30 | Duty-free allowances will be phased out eventually , but they 've been reprieved until 1999 . |