Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [adv] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll take a bus , ’ I thought fondly , ‘ one of those new little fat C2 buses I 've sat behind for so many hours , wishing them in hell .
2 I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said .
3 The bloke who was responsible for signing us I 've known now for about nine years , so there was no question about what sort of music we 'd be doing . ’
4 We 've worked hard for too many years to be dismissed like that . ’
5 We 've worked hard for too many years to be dismissed like that . ’
6 and you 'll be pleased to know that because we 've waffled on for so much we 'll have to save the county 's peculiar pastimes until tomorrow ,
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