Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 3 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 4 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 5 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 6 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 7 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 8 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 9 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 12 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 13 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 14 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 15 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 16 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 17 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 18 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 19 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 20 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 21 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 22 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 23 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 24 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 25 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 26 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 27 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 28 | It 's been condemned for years now . |
| 29 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 30 | He 's been canoeing for years . |