Example sentences of "[pron] 've be [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
2 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
3 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
4 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
5 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
6 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
7 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
8 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
9 | Darling , I 've been looking everywhere for you ! ’ |
10 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
11 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
12 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
13 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
14 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
15 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
16 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
17 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
18 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
19 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
20 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
21 | ‘ I 've been standing outside for ages — wanting to come in , but knowing I should n't . ’ |
22 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
23 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
24 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
25 | ‘ So that 's what you 've been hiding away for ! ’ |
26 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
27 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
28 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
29 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
30 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |