Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 5 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 6 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 7 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 8 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 9 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 10 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 11 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |