Example sentences of "have been doing the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 2 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 3 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 4 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | the resident engineer has been doing the measure and also agreeing the valuations . |
| 10 | Club secretary John Ritchie , who is also the Northern League 's registration secretary said : ‘ We 're sorry to be losing Vic , but the man has been doing the job since December and not received a penny . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 15 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 20 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 26 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 27 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 28 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 29 | ‘ Hullo , Penelope , I 've been doing the flowers , ’ she said , as if an explanation of her emerging from the dining room with leaves seemed to be called for . |
| 30 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |