Example sentences of "had been [verb] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 4 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 5 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |