Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] 've been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 2 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 3 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 4 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 5 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 6 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 7 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 8 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 9 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 10 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 11 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 12 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |