Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 2 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 3 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 4 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 5 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 6 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |