Example sentences of "i have [be] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
2 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
3 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
4 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
5 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
6 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
7 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
8 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
9 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
10 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
11 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
12 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |