Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 2 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 3 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 4 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 5 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 6 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 7 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 8 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 9 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 10 | And they have been rewarded for it . |
| 11 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 12 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 13 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |