Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have been feeding it though ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 4 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 5 | I have been expecting it . |
| 6 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 7 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 8 | You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish , sentimental way you have been handling it . |
| 9 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 10 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 11 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 12 | No sooner have you been sending it in than we have been sending it out again . |
| 13 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 14 | In the remote period of human history which we have been discussing it simply did not exist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Other people have been saying it 's colder , colder than they thought . |
| 17 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 18 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 19 | Miriam : Yes , but you must remember that through the efforts of the older generation we have been fighting it , we have n't been tolerating it passively . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 24 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 25 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 26 | We 've had hundreds of cards and letters for our special Pick the Manager Competition … some fans have been giving it plenty of thought … some have taken to the drawing board … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Lithuania … and England have been battling it out all week … |
| 29 | Today it is a tribute to the French architects and craftsmen who have been restoring it so faithfully ever since . |
| 30 | But it 's encouraging that so many scientists , politicians and ( of late ) influential business people have been making it unmistakably clear to White House officials that the US position on global warming and the whole Earth Summit process absolutely stinks . |