Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 32 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 35 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 36 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 37 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 38 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I 've been standing outside for ages — wanting to come in , but knowing I should n't . ’ |
| 40 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 41 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 42 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 43 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 44 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 45 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 46 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 47 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 48 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 49 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 50 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 51 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 52 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 53 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 58 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 59 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 60 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |