Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [pron] [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 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 3 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 4 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 5 | Right , O K. Now what it does , he 's said right , in September this is what we moved , and then what it does is divides it by four , O K , this is what we did therefore in a week . |
| 6 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 7 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 8 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 9 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 10 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 11 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |