Example sentences of "the years i [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 2 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 3 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 4 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 5 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 6 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |