Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 4 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 5 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 6 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 7 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 8 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 9 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 10 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 11 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 14 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 17 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 18 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 19 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 20 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 21 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |