Example sentences of "[been] doing a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 2 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
| 5 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 8 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 9 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 10 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 11 | They have , it seems , been doing a brisk trade . |
| 12 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |