Example sentences of "it have [adv] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 2 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 3 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 4 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 5 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 6 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |