Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 9 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 10 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 12 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 13 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 14 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 17 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 18 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 19 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 20 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 23 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 24 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 25 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 26 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 27 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 28 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 29 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 30 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |