Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] this [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 2 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 3 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 4 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 5 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 6 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 7 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 8 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 11 | he was sort of been doing this job for a week . |
| 12 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 13 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 14 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 16 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 17 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
| 18 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 20 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 21 | The team , five of them , had been watching this farmhouse for two months . |
| 22 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 23 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 24 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 26 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 27 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |