Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] so for " in BNC.

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1 Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years .
2 He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there .
3 It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years .
4 Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing .
5 This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years .
6 Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well .
7 They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years .
8 And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma .
9 But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now .
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