Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 3 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 4 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 5 | The LCD had been doing its best for the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 6 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 7 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 8 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 9 | Later she wondered what Brian had been doing on the towpath , forgetting that his favourite restaurant commanded a view of the canal . |
| 10 | However , later that evening , the First Lord of the Admiralty , James Thomas , was entertaining some Russian officials including the captain of the Ordzhonikidze , who casually asked Thomas what the frogman had been doing near his ship that morning . |
| 11 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 12 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 13 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |
| 14 | England was finally forced to look at what the rest of the world had been doing with the game . |
| 15 | Louise and Miriam had been doing their work with set faces and compressed lips but that was doubtless because of the smell of the insects which was frightful . |
| 16 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 17 | Their brief was to look at what BP Oil had been doing and recommend ways of doing it better . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 20 | The one thing he did n't ask , for which I was grateful , was what Salome had been doing with Alec Reynolds at midnight on a Saturday down in darkest Kent . |
| 21 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 22 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 23 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |
| 24 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Klepner had been doing everything that was expected of him acting as Mueller 's eyes and ears in Europe . |
| 27 | ‘ They would chat about the day , what Alex had been doing — then Alex would come on the phone . |
| 28 | He went out of the gate , wondering what the rest of the unit had been doing . |
| 29 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 30 | The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said . |