Example sentences of "'ve been doing [det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 2 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 4 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 5 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 6 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 7 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 8 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 9 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 10 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 12 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 13 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 14 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 15 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 16 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 17 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 18 | We 've been doing these for about six . |