Been / gone

1. Amanda has been to the travel agent. She has you tickets for Hong Kong.

2. I’m afraid Mr Davis has gone to Bali and won’t be back for two weeks.

3. Jane will know a good place to stay in New York. She has been there a lot of times.

4. I’ ve been to the printers to collect the brochures. They’re in my car.

5. Mr Lund has gone to Oslo. Would you like the phone number of his hotel?

6. I don’t know where their new offices are. I haven’t been there.

For / since

1. I have known about the takeover bid for several weeks.

2. I have been with this company for six years.

3. I have lived here for 15 years.

4. It isn’t a new Mercedes. He has had it for several years.

Principal clauses of Complex sentences with a clause of time

1. She has owned shares in GM since he started work there.

2. They have operated as joint directors since the company started.

Negatives

1. We haven’t had any large orders from them for several months.

2. I’m not sure if his trip is going well. I haven’t heard from him since Monday.

3. I haven’t seen Mr Ng since September.

4. The company hasn’t made a profit for three years.

5. I haven’t had a pay rise for two years.

6. I haven’t seen her for three years.

7. We haven’t looked at their proposal since July.

8. We haven’t raised our prices in real terms since 2002.

9. We haven’t played golf together for three months.

10. There hasn’t been a fall in unemployment here since 2001.

11. I haven’t been on a sales trip abroad since January.

12. I haven’t seen her since Monday.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

1. They have been producing cars here for ten years.

2. I have been trying to ring them all day.

3. I’ vebeen writing a report for the Director.

4. I haven’t been feeling well recently.

5. Look – the ground is very wet. It has been raining.

6. I didn’t realize you had moved to Novartis. How long have you been working for them?

7. We have been exporting a lot of high technology equipment to China since the government relaxed export regulations.

8. Because of the recession, many businesses haven’t been investing in capital equipment over the last couple of years.

9. We haven’t been flying in Business Class because we are trying to keep our costs down.

10. They have been trying to sell their dotcom business, but so far there has been very little interest in it.

11. I’ vebeen making contributions to my pension for the last five years.

12. How long have you been using psychometric tests in interviews?

13. I’ vebeen looking for a new job.

14. We’ vebeen sell ing over 50,000 units a week.

Negatives

My computer hasn’t been working properly recently.

Ongoing activities

1. How long have you been running the company? ~ I’ vebeen running the company since 1996.

2. How long have you been selling children’s books? ~ We have been selling children’s books since 1997.

3. How long have you been producing books for schools? ~ We have been producing books for schools since 1999.

4. How long have you been making educational software? ~ We have been making educational software for three years.

5. How long have you been working with InterSat TV? ~ We have been working with InterSat TV for two years.

6. How long have you been running the online book club? ~ We’ vebeen running the online book club for six months.

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