Example sentences of "[verb] [be] doing [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
2 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
3 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
4 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
5 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
6 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
11 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
12 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
13 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
14 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
15 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
18 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
19 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
20 | For the past two years , police say , prostitutes have been doing a lively business in the Golden Acres apartments — a group of flats filled with retired old men . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
23 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
24 | At the same time , other cards have been doing the opposite , and our major competitor has recently announced an increase of eight per cent . |
25 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |
26 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |