Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] it for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years .
2 I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while
3 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 ?
4 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 ! ’
5 They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is
6 And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture .
7 ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’
8 I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died .
9 I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same .
10 We have been planning it for more than a year .
11 Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’
12 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 ?
13 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
14 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 .
15 ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’
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