Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 2 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 3 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 4 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 6 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 7 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 8 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 9 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 10 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 11 | Fishing is let each year to the same people , many of whom have been coming to Brora for decades . |
| 12 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ We have been coming to Darlington for eight years now and I can honestly say it gets better every time . |
| 13 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 14 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 16 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 17 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 18 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 19 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 20 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 21 | Women have been campaigning for equality for a long time . |
| 22 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 23 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 24 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |