Example sentences of "[been] doing the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 3 | on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder if she spoke to the person who 's been doing the caretaking ? |
| 5 | Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away . |
| 6 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 7 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 8 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 9 | the resident engineer has been doing the measure and also agreeing the valuations . |
| 10 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |
| 11 | I 've been doing the route for two years now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , insiders suggest that Motorola is now actively encouraging existing and potential 88000 users to start looking at PowerPC : talk of a NeXT portable has been doing the rounds . |
| 14 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 15 | Arguments over intellectual property rights and re-writing code have been doing the rounds of the court system for years . |
| 16 | I hear that Nicolas Thompson has been doing the rounds of literary agents in an attempt to improve the image of Reed Consumer Books among the agenting community . |
| 17 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 18 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 19 | She 's been doing the canvass one , canvass two , and canvass three . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 21 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball . |
| 26 | Jimmy Lett joined AIB in 1944 , when all investigations were concerned with World War II military aircraft , and he had been doing the job ever since . |
| 27 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 28 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 29 | He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been doing the job for years , do n't forget . |