Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be doing " in BNC.
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| 31 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 32 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 33 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 34 | I had been doing about 15mph when this traumatic event occurred . |
| 35 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 37 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 38 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 39 | ‘ I 've been doing very little , but the usual things have been happening all around me . ’ |
| 40 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 41 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
| 42 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 43 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 44 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 45 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 47 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 49 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 50 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 51 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 52 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 53 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 54 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
| 55 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 56 | I 've been doing roughly three a year since I started writing and that 's twenty-five years . |
| 57 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 58 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 59 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 60 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |