Example sentences of "have been [verb] here for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 2 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 5 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 6 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 10 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 11 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 13 | Nothing 's been changed here for ninety years , ’ the barman told me . |