Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 6 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 7 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 8 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 9 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |