Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 3 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 4 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 5 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 6 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 9 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 10 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 11 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 12 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 13 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 14 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 15 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |