Example sentences of "[verb] [been] do a " in BNC.

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1 The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk .
2 The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems .
3 So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy ,
4 It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing !
5 ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach .
6 She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’
7 No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better .
8 Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking .
9 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
10 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
11 If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road .
12 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
13 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
14 ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
15 Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him .
16 The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books .
17 The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said .
18 The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air .
19 If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse .
20 It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on .
21 In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them .
22 ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed .
23 But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’
24 February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising .
25 Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew .
26 Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses .
27 I 've been doing a lot of that lately .
28 ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’
29 Er I 've been doing a , been writing a book now , for about ten years .
30 ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi .
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