Example sentences of "[num] and [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 2 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 3 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 4 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 5 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 6 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 7 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 8 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |