Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 32 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 33 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 34 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 35 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 38 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 42 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 43 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 44 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 47 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 50 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 51 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 54 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 55 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 58 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 59 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 60 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |