Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 2 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 3 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 4 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 5 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 6 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 9 | For the past two days he had been saying so to all who would listen . |
| 10 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 11 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 12 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |