Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 3 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 4 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 5 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 6 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 7 | Ever since the pharmaceutical company for which he worked had given him the vehicle given , thought Henry grimly ) number 47 had been watching over it in a manner that suggested an emotion deeper than motherhood , more desperate than romantic love . |
| 8 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 9 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 10 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 13 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 14 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 15 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 16 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 17 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 18 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 19 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 20 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 21 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 22 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 23 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 24 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 25 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 26 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 27 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 28 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 29 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 30 | He 's been working for it for years . |