Example sentences of "who [verb] [be] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 2 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 3 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 4 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 5 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 6 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 7 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 8 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 9 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |