Example sentences of "have been do [pers pn] [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 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 12 | They 've been doing it to Albanians at . |
| 13 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 14 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 15 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 16 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 17 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 18 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 19 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 20 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 21 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 22 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 24 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 25 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 26 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 27 | I 've been doing it for |
| 28 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 29 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 30 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |