Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pron] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 3 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 4 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 5 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 6 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 7 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 8 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 9 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 11 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 12 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 13 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 14 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 15 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 16 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 17 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 18 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 19 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 20 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 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 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 27 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 28 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 29 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 30 | 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 . |