Example sentences of "been doing it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 2 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 3 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 4 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 5 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 6 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 7 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 8 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 9 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 10 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 11 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 12 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 13 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |