Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] 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 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 9 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 10 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 13 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 16 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 17 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 21 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 22 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 23 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 24 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 25 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 26 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 27 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 29 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 30 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |