Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
2 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
3 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
4 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
5 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
6 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
7 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
8 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
9 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
10 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
11 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |