Example sentences of "[verb] [be] doing that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 3 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 4 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 5 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 6 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 7 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 8 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 9 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 10 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 11 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 12 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
| 16 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 17 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 18 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 19 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 20 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 21 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 22 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 23 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 24 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 29 | I 've been doing that . |
| 30 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |