Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 4 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 5 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 6 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 7 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 8 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 9 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 10 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 11 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 12 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 13 | The fact that we are providing the services for Wiltshire , that they were providing , and we 're providing them for less money , is surely something to be applauded . |
| 14 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 15 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 16 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think we 're criticising you for that , ’ put in David . |
| 18 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
| 19 | If you put wellies down you 're blocking him for another turn are n't you ? |
| 20 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 21 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 22 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 23 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 24 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 26 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 27 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 28 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 29 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 30 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |