Example sentences of "been [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 2 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 3 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 4 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 5 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 6 | ‘ If your wife fancies me — as you put it she 's been keeping it very much to herself . ’ |
| 7 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 8 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 9 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 10 | He received a formal grant of the land in December 1471 , although he had perhaps been promised it earlier , since one of his associates was promoted to a benefice within the estate in the previous October . |
| 11 | He received a formal grant of the land in December 1471 , although he had perhaps been promised it earlier , since one of his associates was promoted to a benefice within the estate in the previous October . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 13 | You have been feeding it though ? |
| 14 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 15 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
| 17 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 18 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 19 | We 've been doing it so long now ( a good ten years , maybe ) that we have turned into what we do . |
| 20 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you been doing it long ? ’ he enquired . |
| 22 | You 're doing brilliant in French , absolutely brilliant , she has n't been doing it long . |
| 23 | because this , this , your friend , I mean you have n't been doing it long have you and she will only talk to you in French wo n't she ? |
| 24 | I 've just been doing it together . |
| 25 | Ooh I 've , yeah , I 've been doing it about three years . |
| 26 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 27 | But he 's been doing it manually have n't you Rog ? |
| 28 | Mr Fallon fired back : ‘ Education in this country is run by the councils and largely they have been running it very badly . |
| 29 | It became apparent that the business was haemorrhaging cash because John 's partner had been spending it unwisely and indiscriminately . |
| 30 | Mm Yeah we 've been found it really difficult finding a baby sitter really I 'm surprised ever since we 've had Lisa we 've been really bad uh uh actually having baby sitters and you know actually making the effort to go out really . |