Example sentences of "'ve be doing [adj] " in BNC.

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31 We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months .
32 So we 've been doing that with children as well .
33 I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future .
34 It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good .
35 Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ?
36 ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it .
37 After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have .
38 ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that .
39 ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’
40 I 've been doing this for around six years now .
41 ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue .
42 For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain .
43 That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over .
44 ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string .
45 No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago
46 Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’
47 ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string .
48 Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for
49 We 've been doing this
50 We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan .
51 I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy .
52 Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon .
53 But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do .
54 It does n't matter what you state , cos we had heard from other pe , I 've been doing this , I 've been up here last weekend cos I am so angry about all this !
55 Well how you 've been doing this week ?
56 Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week !
57 So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day .
58 One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools .
59 Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ?
60 It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going .
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