Example sentences of "he [verb] been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 6 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 7 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 8 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 9 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 10 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 11 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 12 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |