Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 2 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 3 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 4 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 5 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 8 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 9 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 10 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 12 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 13 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 14 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 15 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 16 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 17 | They 've been doing it to Albanians at . |
| 18 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 19 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 20 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 21 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 22 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 23 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 24 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 25 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 26 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 27 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 29 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 30 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |