Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 2 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 3 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 5 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 7 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 9 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 10 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 12 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 14 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 15 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 16 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 17 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 19 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 20 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 21 | The British have been voicing them for years . |
| 22 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 23 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 24 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |