Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 2 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 5 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 6 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 7 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 9 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 10 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 11 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 12 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 13 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 15 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 16 | The British have been voicing them for years . |
| 17 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 18 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 19 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 20 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 23 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 24 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 25 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 26 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 27 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 28 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |