Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 2 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 3 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 4 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 5 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 7 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 8 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 10 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 11 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 12 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 13 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 15 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 16 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 17 | Sera taken before and after transplantation have been tested retrospectively for anti-HC Ab in 12 patients . |
| 18 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 19 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 20 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 21 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 22 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 23 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 24 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 25 | The central plains of China have been farmed continuously for thousands of years and you begin to wonder how they have stayed fertile . |
| 26 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 27 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 28 | Records have been kept there for two hundred years . |
| 29 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 30 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |