Example sentences of "i [vb base] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 2 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 5 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 6 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 7 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 8 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 9 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 11 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 13 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 15 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 19 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 23 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 24 | I 've been recording for this |
| 25 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 27 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 28 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 29 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 30 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |