Example sentences of "i [verb] been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 4 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 5 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 6 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
| 12 | Darling , I 've been looking everywhere for you ! ’ |
| 13 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
| 14 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 15 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 17 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 18 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 19 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 20 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 21 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 22 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 23 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been standing outside for ages — wanting to come in , but knowing I should n't . ’ |
| 25 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 27 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 28 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 29 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 30 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |