Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be do it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
2 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
3 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
4 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
5 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
6 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
7 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
8 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
9 | He 's been doing it for years . |
10 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
11 | He 's been doing it for years . |
12 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
13 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
14 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |