Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [n mass] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 2 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 3 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 4 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 5 | New York private dealer William Beadleston had been asking $725,000 for ‘ La Fleur de Barbe ’ , an oil on paper by Jean Dubuffet of 1959 . |
| 6 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 7 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 8 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 9 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 10 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 11 | However , tiger attacks on people have caused problems , especially in the forests of the Sundarbans , where aggressive tigers have been killing people for hundreds of years . |