Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
2 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
3 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
4 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
5 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
6 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
7 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
8 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
9 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
10 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
11 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
12 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
13 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
14 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
15 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
16 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
17 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
18 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
19 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
20 | I have been recording for ages . |