Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 3 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 4 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 5 | To give you some insight into the kind of research we have been doing in order to grasp the concept of innovative climate , I will present two sets of data . |
| 6 | All the buying they 've been doing must be starting to hurt . |
| 7 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 8 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 9 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 10 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 12 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 13 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 14 | Perhaps I do know your potential , through the work we 've been doing , but you 're not a computer : you have autonomy . |
| 15 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 16 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |
| 17 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 18 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 19 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 20 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 21 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 22 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 27 | over two years she 's been doing it . |
| 28 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 29 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 30 | I mean , for ‘ O ’ level composition , certainly for the Board we 've been doing here , it was continuing a melody ; set pattern eight bars ; modulation ; answering phrase ; … harmonizing in four parts ; set chords … so it was never free composition . |