Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 2 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 3 | We say yeah but we 're we 're doing it in three stages . |
| 4 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
| 5 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 6 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
| 7 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
| 8 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 9 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 10 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 11 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 12 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 13 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 16 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 17 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 18 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 19 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 21 | That is their own fault because according to , there was a programme on there and it was saying they , they must be selling it to these firms that recy , that use it |
| 22 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 23 | You should be doing it in small letters . |
| 24 | The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary . |
| 25 | Safeways , I think , are taking it in other parts of the country . |
| 26 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |
| 27 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 28 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 29 | Handling and storage are n't simple , either — the choices for natural gas are compressing it to 200-plus bars or liquefying at -167deg C. Liquefied propane is easier to handle and already accepted , particularly in places like cold stores , where toxic exhaust build-up would be tricky . |
| 30 | Pamela Chrimes had left for England and John wrote that Yvonne Blake ‘ is making an excellent Scarlet Woman , but her ankles are too weak for point shoes , so she 's doing it in high heels ; it looks quite nice . ’ |