Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 2 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |
| 3 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 4 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 5 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 6 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been over it for years . |
| 8 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 9 | They 've got people who 've been on it for years and years . |
| 10 | Erm , and I have no side effects to it , I 've been on it for quite a long while . |
| 11 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 12 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 13 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |
| 14 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 15 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 16 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 17 | And you need n't have any feeling of compunction about him , for he 's been at it for years on the side , and you know it . |
| 18 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 19 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 20 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 21 | That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now . |