Example sentences of "have been doing [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 7 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 8 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 9 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |