Example sentences of "i [verb] been [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 3 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 4 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 5 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 6 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 7 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 12 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 13 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 14 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 15 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 16 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 17 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 18 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 19 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 20 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 23 | I 've been doing it for |
| 24 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 25 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 28 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 29 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 30 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |