Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 4 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 5 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've been doing it for |
| 9 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 10 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 13 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 14 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |