Example sentences of "i have been doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 3 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 4 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 6 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 7 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 8 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 10 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |
| 13 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 14 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 15 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 16 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 17 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 19 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 21 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 22 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 23 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 24 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 25 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |