Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 2 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 3 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 4 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 6 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 7 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 8 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 9 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 10 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 11 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 12 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 14 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |