Example sentences of "been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 32 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 33 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 34 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 35 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 36 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 37 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 38 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 39 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 40 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 41 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 42 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 43 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 44 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 45 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 46 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 47 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 48 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 51 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 52 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 53 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 56 | I 've been doing it for |
| 57 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 60 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |