Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 2 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 3 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 5 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 6 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 9 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 10 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 13 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 14 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 15 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 16 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 17 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 18 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |