Example sentences of "you [vb base] [been] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 3 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 4 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 5 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |