Example sentences of "[pron] been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 4 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 5 | Stuart , Gavin Have you been mistaken for Oxford fans yet ? |
| 6 | How often have you been lost for words when engaged in the ‘ what sort of strings do you use ’ type of conversation with a newly acquired guitar playing chum you 're eager to impress ? |
| 7 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 8 | ‘ We been saving for months ! |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |