Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " 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 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 3 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 4 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 5 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 7 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 8 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 13 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 16 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 18 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |