Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 3 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 4 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 5 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 6 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 7 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 8 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 9 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 10 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 11 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 12 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 13 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 14 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 15 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 16 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 17 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 18 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 19 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 21 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 22 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 23 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 24 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 25 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 27 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 30 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |