Example sentences of "i [verb] been [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 2 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 3 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 4 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 5 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 6 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 8 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 9 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 11 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 12 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 13 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 14 | I 've been claiming benefits for 18 months and this offer is a complete surprise . |
| 15 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 16 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 18 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 19 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 20 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 21 | I carve the meat and prepare vegetables and stuffings — all my life I have been preparing things for somebody ! |
| 22 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |
| 23 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |