Example sentences of "year [pers pn] 've [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 2 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 3 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 4 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 5 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 6 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 7 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 9 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 10 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 12 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 13 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 14 | But all the years we 've been trying . |
| 15 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 16 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 17 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 18 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 19 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 20 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 21 | I 've been very happy with Oxford the last 6 year I 've been racing for them . |
| 22 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 23 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |