Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed actually the paradox that Fred Hoyle has just rediscovered erm which is for those of us who have been teaching it to our undergraduates for thirty years . |
| 2 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 3 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 4 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 5 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 6 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 7 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 8 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 9 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 10 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 11 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 12 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 13 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 14 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 15 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 16 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 17 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |