Example sentences of "i have been [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 2 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 3 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 4 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 5 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 7 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 8 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 9 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 10 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 14 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 16 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 17 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 18 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 19 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 20 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 22 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 23 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |