Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [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 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 6 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 7 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 9 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 10 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 14 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 15 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 16 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 19 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 21 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 23 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 24 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 25 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 26 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 27 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 28 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 29 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 30 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |