Example sentences of "been [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheep had been eating it and poor Sir Thomas got the wrong one . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 3 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 4 | who 's been eating it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's swollen again — you have n't been resting it . ’ |
| 6 | oh he sucked his biscuit before , that 's right , I put it in the bin did n't I ? and I said to you do n't eat it because Richard 's been sucking it , lift your foot up please let's have your shoe back on again |
| 7 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 8 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 9 | ‘ No , he must have been enjoying it , ’ said Jannie . |
| 10 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 11 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 12 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 13 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 14 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 15 | You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish , sentimental way you have been handling it . |
| 16 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 17 | You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now . |
| 18 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 19 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 20 | The mould Penicillium looked interesting , and was available : research workers in the department had been using it , just as Fleming was doing , to prevent the growth of unwanted organisms in bacterial cultures . |
| 21 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 22 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 23 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 24 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 25 | Talbot acted as a primary test site for AppleShare and one of their customers , the Poole Advertiser , has actually been using it in anger for about three months . |
| 26 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 27 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 28 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 29 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 30 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |