Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHILDREN from Llandudno schools have been doing their bit to help soften the impact of a massive building project on the town 's promenade . |
| 2 | CHILDREN from Llandudno schools have been doing their bit to help soften the impact of a massive building project on Llandudno 's promenade . |
| 3 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 4 | WRAC recruits have been doing weapon training only since July 1988 , but they quickly master the skills of stripping and assembling , cleaning and preparing , before they progress to live firing on the ranges . |
| 5 | The hens have been doing frightfully well . |
| 6 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 7 | ‘ The visitors have been doing it as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 8 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 9 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 10 | United Nations troops have been doing what they can to protect the besieged Muslims , but they need more men . |
| 11 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 12 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 13 | So far only £2,000 has been raised , but individuals have been doing jobs for nothing . |
| 14 | The opportunity to help investment and to help employment directly , then they should be prepared to cut erm interest rates , as our European partners have been doing . |
| 15 | For the past two years , police say , prostitutes have been doing a lively business in the Golden Acres apartments — a group of flats filled with retired old men . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 18 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 19 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 21 | In the meantime , police have been doing what they can , including setting up their own temporrary service areas with toilets and refreshments . |
| 22 | ‘ We want to draw attention to what the police have been doing , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 24 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 25 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 26 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 27 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 28 | Most people imagine that they are fairly competent communicators ; adults have been doing it all their lives ! |
| 29 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 30 | Women have been doing it for years . |