Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 2 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 3 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 4 | ‘ These show who has been doing it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
| 6 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 7 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 8 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 9 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 10 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 11 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 12 | But it 's only doable , I 'm afraid that 's an Americanism that 's crept into our language , doable , erm only if you listen to the people who 've been doing it . |
| 13 | And all I what my my parting statement to most people , although I 'll say it right now because I 've started it , erm is that if you 're prepared to listen to the advice given by the people who 've been doing er selling advertising in these environments |
| 14 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 15 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 16 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 17 | It was him who had been doing it . |
| 18 | But when she went out , she saw the girl who had been doing the flowers waiting in the porch , and guessed that she must be the Vicar 's wife . |
| 19 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 20 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 21 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 22 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 23 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 24 | While it is wise to show a certain deference to those older than you who have been doing the job for years and who would be alienated by over-confident brashness , you must not look as though you might be a drag on whoever you are hoping to work with . |
| 25 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 26 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 27 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 28 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |
| 29 | I watch Southport , who have been doing the business this season , and I have noticed an increase in our crowd attendances . |
| 30 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |