Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 3 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 4 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 6 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 7 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 8 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 13 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 16 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 17 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 18 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've been doing it for |
| 21 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 22 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 23 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 24 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 25 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 26 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 27 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 28 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 29 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 30 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |