Example sentences of "[been] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |
| 2 | I have n't been doing much baking lately . ’ |
| 3 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , what have you been doing these past two days ? ’ |
| 5 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 6 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 7 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 8 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 9 | ‘ What on earth have you been doing ? ’ he demanded . |
| 10 | ‘ So , tell me how you 've been , what you 've been doing . |
| 11 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 12 | Kenneth MacMillan is a master of many styles and views but it was he who first revealed Lynn Seymour 's dramatic gifts in Romeo and Juliet and has more recently been doing the same for Darcey Bussell . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We can not commit ourselves to sacking senior managers who have simply been doing their jobs . |
| 15 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 16 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 17 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 18 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 19 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 20 | Everybody 's been doing it , but they 've not thought about it as a design process and they have not usually brought people with design skills into the team to make these things happen better . |
| 21 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 22 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 23 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 24 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 25 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 26 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 27 | WRAC recruits have been doing weapon training only since July 1988 , but they quickly master the skills of stripping and assembling , cleaning and preparing , before they progress to live firing on the ranges . |
| 28 | He went out of the gate , wondering what the rest of the unit had been doing . |
| 29 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 30 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |