Example sentences of "i have 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 . ’ |