Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
2 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
3 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
4 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
5 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
6 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |