Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] so [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 2 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 3 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 4 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 5 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |