Example sentences of "had been [verb] it [prep] " 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 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 7 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 10 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 13 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 14 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 15 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 18 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 19 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 22 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets . |
| 26 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |