Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 3 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 4 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 5 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 10 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 11 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 13 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 14 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |