Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 6 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 7 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 've been importing it for centuries . |