Example sentences of "[be] doing this [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're doing this for Fudge and Roz down here . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're doing this on purpose , ’ she said tightly . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're doing this to me , ’ she said achingly . |
| 4 | I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years . |
| 5 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 6 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 7 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 8 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 9 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 10 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 11 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 12 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 13 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 14 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 15 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 16 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 18 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 19 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 20 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 21 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 22 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 23 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 24 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 25 | They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly . |
| 26 | It is all too easy for the Germans to accept the glib axiom that whatever is good for Germany is good for Europe , and the ‘ European ’ gloss may permit them to pursue their own interests while trying to convince others , and even perhaps convincing themselves , that they are doing this for Europe . |
| 27 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 28 | We are doing this for the right reasons . ’ |
| 29 | Lawyers in Norway , he suggests , are doing this with regard to legal concepts and linguists have to do the same with regard to linguistic concepts and theories ( ibid . ) . |
| 30 | If you are doing this without instructors you will have to imagine suitable rewards and punishers . |