Example sentences of "been doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 2 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 3 | What had you been doing that day ? |
| 4 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 5 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 7 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 8 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 9 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 10 | Rocastle has been doing illegal drugs |
| 11 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 12 | What have you been doing all day — walking round with the Michelin , looking at churches ? ’ |
| 13 | What 've you been doing all day today ? . |
| 14 | What you been doing all day ? |
| 15 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 16 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 17 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 18 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 19 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 20 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 21 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 22 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 24 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 25 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 26 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 27 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |
| 28 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 29 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 30 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |