Example sentences of "[pers pn] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 2 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 3 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 4 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 5 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , what 've you been lookin' for ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ How long have you been searching for me ? ’ |
| 8 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 9 | How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ? |
| 10 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 11 | you work for erm Law Centre , erm , how long have you been working for the Law Centre ? |
| 12 | ‘ We been saving for months ! |
| 13 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 14 | Just think , what have we been looking for ? |
| 15 | What had they been looking for ? |
| 16 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 17 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 18 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 19 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 20 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 21 | Has he been working for a long time ? |