Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 4 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 5 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 6 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 7 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 8 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 9 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 13 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 17 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 18 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 21 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 22 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 23 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 27 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 28 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |