Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 3 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 4 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 5 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 7 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 8 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 9 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 10 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 12 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 13 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 14 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 15 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 18 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 19 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 21 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 23 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 24 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 26 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 28 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 29 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 30 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |