Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 3 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 9 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 10 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 11 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 12 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 13 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 14 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 15 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 16 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 17 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 18 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 19 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 20 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 21 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 22 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |