Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 2 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 3 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 4 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 5 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 6 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 7 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 8 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 9 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 10 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 13 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 14 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 15 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 16 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 17 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 18 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 19 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 20 | We 've been importing it for centuries . |
| 21 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 22 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 23 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 24 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 25 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 27 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 28 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |