Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] for weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 2 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 3 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 4 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 5 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 6 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 7 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |