Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 2 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 3 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 5 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 6 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 7 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 8 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 9 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 10 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 11 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 12 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 13 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 14 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 15 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 16 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 17 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 18 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |