Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pers pn] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 2 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 3 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 4 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 6 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 7 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 8 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |