Example sentences of "been at [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been at him for years . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |
| 3 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 4 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 5 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 6 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 7 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 8 | She 's probably been at it for years . ’ |
| 9 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 10 | And you need n't have any feeling of compunction about him , for he 's been at it for years on the side , and you know it . |
| 11 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |