Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 2 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 3 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 4 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 5 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 6 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 7 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 8 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 9 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 10 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 11 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 13 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 14 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 15 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 16 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 17 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 18 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 20 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 21 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 22 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 23 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 24 | The British have been voicing them for years . |
| 25 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 26 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 27 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 28 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 29 | He 's been doing it for years . |