Example sentences of "have been doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 2 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 4 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 5 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 6 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 7 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 8 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 9 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 10 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 12 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 13 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 14 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 15 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 17 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 18 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 21 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 22 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 23 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 24 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 25 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 26 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 27 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 28 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 29 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 30 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |