Example sentences of "[vb base] be doing that " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
2 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
3 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
4 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
5 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
6 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
7 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
8 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
9 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
10 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
11 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
16 | I 've been doing that . |
17 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
18 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
19 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
20 | I 've been doing that today as well . |
21 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
22 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
23 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |