Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 3 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 4 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 5 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 6 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 7 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
| 8 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 9 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 10 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 11 | The public has been rebelling for years . |
| 12 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 13 | The ARC marked the start of a liveaboard adventure that the Codd 's had been planning for years . |
| 14 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 15 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 16 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 17 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 18 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 19 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 20 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 21 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 22 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 23 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 24 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 25 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 26 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 27 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 28 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 29 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 30 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |