Example sentences of "[verb] been doing [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 2 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 3 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 4 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 5 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 6 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 7 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 8 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 9 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 10 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 12 | I 've been doing most of my cooking with the |
| 13 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 14 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 15 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 16 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 17 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 18 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |
| 19 | As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums . |
| 20 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 21 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |