Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 3 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
| 10 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
| 11 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 12 | The record 's jazz stylings have already attracted the attention of DJ Gilles Peterson at London 's Jazz FM , who has been playing it on tape for some time . |
| 13 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 14 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 15 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 16 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 17 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 20 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 21 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 22 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 23 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 24 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 26 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 27 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 28 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 29 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |