Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 3 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 4 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 5 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 6 | I 've been claiming benefits for 18 months and this offer is a complete surprise . |
| 7 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 8 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 10 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 11 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 12 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 13 | I carve the meat and prepare vegetables and stuffings — all my life I have been preparing things for somebody ! |
| 14 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |