Example sentences of "have been [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 2 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 3 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 4 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 5 | She might have been having it off with Parkin . |
| 6 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 7 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 8 | Ward 's side had been fighting it out on the streets with the IPLO 's Dublin-based Army Council in a row over drug money . |
| 9 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 10 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 11 | Me having tied up the whole of this campaign while you 've been whooping it up in Valencia — ? ’ |
| 12 | I 've been bottling it up inside me far too long . |
| 13 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 14 | You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now . |
| 15 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 16 | And he said oh I 've been taking it out of one of our own caravans , our own caravans he said . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 18 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 19 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 20 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 21 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 22 | She 's been having it off with him ! |