Example sentences of "have [be] doing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 2 | Now I hope that only Kelly has been doing things as desperately wrong as Kelly has been doing them . |
| 3 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 4 | You may have to organize different kinds of help in the home , if the patient has been doing tasks and housework . |
| 5 | ‘ PopCon has been doing research all over the world to establish that the majority of prospective parents would prefer a son to a daughter , and many would be prepared to undergo minor medical procedures to ensure that they got their wish , including the abortion of a female fetus , ’ Dorothy told a hushed audience in a room at a secret address in North London . |
| 6 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 7 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 8 | Culham has been doing forefront work in the fusion field for over two decades , and today is the site of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) . |
| 9 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |
| 10 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 12 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 13 | and might as well have been doing decimals . |
| 14 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 16 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 17 | He had been doing road duty when the first wagons rolled past , with a US Cavalry Escort , and he had looked upon the face of the Josephite leader and known that these were the last days of the world . |
| 18 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 19 | Charles defended the man stoutly , and asked instead , what the hell the driver thought he had been doing careering up and down the lochside like that . |
| 20 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 21 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |
| 22 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |
| 23 | I 've been doing smack on and off for about five years . |
| 24 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 27 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 28 | You 've been doing things the same way for years and you know you can get things across , but … |
| 29 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 30 | But I talked to psychologist about it , and she said it 's a lot more interesting than that , what you 're forgetting is , that change is usually perceived as criticism , what 's wrong with the way we 've been doing things . |