Example sentences of "have [be] [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 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 10 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 13 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 14 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 15 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 16 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 17 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 18 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 22 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 28 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |