Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 2 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 3 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 4 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 6 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 7 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 9 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 10 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 11 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 12 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 15 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 16 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 17 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 18 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 19 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 20 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 21 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 22 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 23 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 24 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 28 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 29 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 30 | 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 . |