Example sentences of "had be [verb] it for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions .
4 The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement .
5 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 .
6 It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ .
10 She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important .
11 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 .
12 Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this .
13 It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour .
14 I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly .
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