Example sentences of "years i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 2 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 3 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 4 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 5 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 6 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 7 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 8 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 9 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 10 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 12 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 13 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 15 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 16 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 17 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 18 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 19 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 20 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 21 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 22 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 23 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 24 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 25 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 26 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 27 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 28 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 29 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 30 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |