Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] it for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 3 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 4 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 5 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 6 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 7 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 8 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 9 | 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 . |