Example sentences of "[verb] been doing [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 32 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 33 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 34 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 35 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 36 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 37 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 38 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 39 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 40 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 41 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 42 | No one had been doing any proper hunting for days , because Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) would provide , according to Nisodemus . |
| 43 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
| 44 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 45 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 46 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 47 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 48 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
| 49 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 50 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 51 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 52 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 53 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 54 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 55 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 56 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 57 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 58 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 59 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 60 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |