Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] it for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |