Example sentences of "have be [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre .
2 The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 .
3 We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers .
4 He 'd been using it for the Open .
5 She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon .
6 Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation .
7 The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present .
8 She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’
9 I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle .
10 The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't .
11 The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't .
12 I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row .
13 While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment .
14 The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement .
15 His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue .
16 The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink .
17 While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous .
18 Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets .
19 Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know ,
20 Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something
21 Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now .
22 A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’
23 Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ?
24 Well I 've been doing it for a
25 So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis .
26 I 've been treating it as a wart .
27 If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years .
28 Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that .
29 Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation .
30 That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer .
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