Example sentences of "have been doing a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
2 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
3 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
4 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
5 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
6 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
7 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
8 | For the past two years , police say , prostitutes have been doing a lively business in the Golden Acres apartments — a group of flats filled with retired old men . |
9 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |