Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 4 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 5 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 6 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 8 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 9 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 10 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 11 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 12 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 13 | Well , lately I 've begun to understand that God has been punishing me for my pride and my past wickedness . |
| 14 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 15 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 16 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 17 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 18 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 19 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 20 | Well Derek 's been telling her for ages you see , to join the |
| 21 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 22 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 23 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 24 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 25 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 27 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 28 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 29 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |