Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 2 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 3 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 4 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 5 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 6 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 7 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 8 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 9 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 10 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 12 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 13 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 14 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 15 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 16 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 17 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 18 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 19 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 20 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |