Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 4 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 8 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 9 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 10 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 12 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 13 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 14 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 17 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 18 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 19 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 20 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 21 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 22 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 23 | 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 ! ’ |
| 24 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 25 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 26 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 27 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 28 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 29 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 30 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |