Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 3 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 4 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 5 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 6 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 8 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |