Example sentences of "years [pers pn] [vb base] [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 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 14 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 15 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 16 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 17 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 18 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 19 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 20 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 21 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 22 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 23 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 24 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 25 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 26 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 27 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 28 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But all the years we 've been trying . |