Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 2 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 3 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 4 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 5 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 6 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 7 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 8 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 9 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 10 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 11 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 12 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 13 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |