Present Perfect Continuous

1.
I have been helping my father to build our
house since last September.
2.
We have been playing in the band since our
first year in school.
3.
He has been teaching English for eight years.
4.
I have been writing this report for 5 days.
5.
Matt and Sarah have been having some
difficulties in their relationship lately.
6.
John has been working for the government
since he graduated from Harvard University.
7.
I have been watching TV for hours.
8.
I have been using this laptop for three years.
9.
The workers have been demanding higher
wages for a long time.
10. A strange man has been following us for hours.

Past Perfect Continuous

1. They were very tired in the evening because
they had been helping on the farm all day.
2. She had been playing trumpet for 3 years
before she joined a band.
3. He was confident because he had been
rehearsing hard for the show.
4. Amber felt fit for the marathon because she
had been training a lot.
5. They had been eating all the chocolate cake by
the time Michael went to the party.
6. When the doctor told him his liver was
seriously bad, he had been eating hamburgers
for a month.
7. When they cancelled the flight to Penang, the
storm had been raging all afternoon with no sign
of abating.
8. Dora had been playing with her dolls since
morning before her parents went home.
9. Those women had been washing their clothes
for three hours.
10. We had been looking for her ring for two hours
and then we found in the bathroom.

Future Perfect Continuous

1.I have not traveled much yet; however, I will have been
visiting the Grand Canyon and San Francisco for at least
a month by the time I leave the United States.

2.This building will have been cleaning by the same man

for ten years next month.
3.John will have been teaching the same lesson for a
week this coming Sunday.
4.My project will have been finishing before the deadline
next month.
5.We will have been working in this department for two
months.
6.She will not have been reading for two days.
7.James will have been teaching at the university for more
than a year by the time he leaves for Asia.
8.The famous artist will have been painting the mural for
over six months by the time it is finished.
9.By the year 2020, linguists will have been studying and
defining the Indo-European language family for more
than 200 years.
10. The boys will have been playing the hockey since
evening.