Example sentences of "been [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 2 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 3 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 6 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 7 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 8 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 9 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 12 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 13 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 14 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 17 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 20 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 21 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 22 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 23 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 24 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 25 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Been taking it for a week or so now ! |