Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 2 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 3 | The issue of ‘ reprivatisation ’ , as it is quaintly termed , is also politically sensitive , and the Polish Sejm has been throwing it back and forth across the Chamber like a hot potato . |
| 4 | ‘ He has been taking it ? ’ |
| 5 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 7 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 8 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 9 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 10 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 12 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ These show who has been doing it . ’ |
| 15 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 16 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 18 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 19 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 22 | Mike Rowbottom has been sampling it . |
| 23 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
| 24 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 25 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
| 26 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
| 27 | The council 's housing officer says she 's got to go back to her flat with an injunction , otherwise she 's making herself intentionally homeless , and he says the arrears are £4OO , that 's impossible , the DHSS has been paying it direct ! |
| 28 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 29 | The National Rivers Authority has been celebrating it 's first birthday today in the Fox F M region . |
| 30 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |