Example sentences of "been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 2 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 3 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 4 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 5 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 6 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 7 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 8 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 9 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 10 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 11 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 16 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 17 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 20 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 21 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 22 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 23 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 24 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 29 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 30 | I 've been doing it for years . |