Example sentences of "been [v-ing] them for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
2 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
3 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
4 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
5 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
6 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
7 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
8 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |