Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 3 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 4 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 6 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 7 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 8 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 11 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 12 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 13 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 14 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 15 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 16 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 17 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 18 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 19 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 20 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 21 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 22 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |