Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it for [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 're giving it for six months .
4 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 .
5 And I 'd been paying it for two years then
6 I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died .
7 He 's been doin' it for forty years .
8 I 'd been doing it for five years .
9 Tom 's been doing it for 18 years .
10 Have you been doing it for many years ?
11 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
12 He 's been doing it for twenty years
13 Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm ,
14 She 's been doing it for twenty days .
15 She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three .
16 He 's been doing it for three years now .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ .
20 four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks .
21 Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months .
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