Example sentences of "[subord] it have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 2 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 3 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 4 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 5 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 6 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 7 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 8 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |