Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 3 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 4 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 5 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 6 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 7 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 8 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 9 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 10 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 11 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 13 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 14 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 15 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 16 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 17 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 19 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 20 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 21 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 22 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 23 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 24 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 25 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 26 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 27 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 28 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 29 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 30 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |