Example sentences of "been [verb] it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 2 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 3 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 4 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 5 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 6 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 7 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 8 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 9 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 10 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 13 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 14 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 15 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 16 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 20 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 22 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 23 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 24 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 25 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |