Example sentences of "[been] do the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When this first draft has been done the researcher has something which can be worked on .
2 Once this has been done the receiver 's job is finished and the remaining assets will revert to their owners or to less fortunate unsecured creditors .
3 In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable .
4 … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way .
5 Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons .
6 ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want .
7 ‘ I wonder if she spoke to the person who 's been doing the caretaking ?
8 Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away .
9 For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia .
10 but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it
11 the resident engineer has been doing the measure and also agreeing the valuations .
12 He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country .
13 I 've been doing the route for two years now .
14 After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again .
15 Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven !
16 Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’
17 She 's been doing the canvass one , canvass two , and canvass three .
18 ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained .
19 Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork .
20 While it is wise to show a certain deference to those older than you who have been doing the job for years and who would be alienated by over-confident brashness , you must not look as though you might be a drag on whoever you are hoping to work with .
21 The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer .
22 His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there .
23 ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball .
24 Jimmy Lett joined AIB in 1944 , when all investigations were concerned with World War II military aircraft , and he had been doing the job ever since .
25 I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector .
26 She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time .
27 He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it .
28 ‘ I 've been doing the job for years , do n't forget .
29 Club secretary John Ritchie , who is also the Northern League 's registration secretary said : ‘ We 're sorry to be losing Vic , but the man has been doing the job since December and not received a penny .
30 ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years .
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