Example sentences of "[vb -s] be do it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 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 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 8 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 9 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 10 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 11 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 12 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 13 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 14 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 17 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 18 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 19 | You find out your wife 's been doing it with your best friend , whip in your petition for divorce and before you can say ‘ one-night stand ’ you 're a free man . |
| 20 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |