Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 4 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 6 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 8 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 10 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 11 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |