Example sentences of "'ve been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I 've been a subscriber for a couple of years now . |
| 2 | I 've been a member for er fifty eight year , the W I and I 'm a member in Kirkwall now . |
| 3 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 4 | You 've been a widow for fourteen months now . |
| 5 | She rejected his false offering and informed him coolly , ‘ I 've been a widow for many years . |
| 6 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been a widower for ten years . ’ |
| 8 | They 've been a nuisance for several days now . |
| 9 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 10 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 11 | I 've been a nun for thirty years |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 13 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 14 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |