Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [pron] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 3 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 4 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 5 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 6 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 8 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 10 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 12 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 13 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 14 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 15 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 16 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 17 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 18 | We 've been importing it for centuries . |