Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 4 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 6 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 10 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 11 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 12 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 13 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 14 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 15 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |