Example sentences of "[verb] been doing [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 2 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 3 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 4 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 5 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 6 | But what would she have been doing in Southwark ? |
| 7 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The one thing he did n't ask , for which I was grateful , was what Salome had been doing with Alec Reynolds at midnight on a Saturday down in darkest Kent . |
| 10 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 11 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 12 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 13 | She knew that he had been doing without luncheon , and now he could afford some . |
| 14 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 15 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 16 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 17 | And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ? |
| 18 | Just talk like what you 've been doing at school and things like that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 21 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 22 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 23 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 24 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 26 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is also a ‘ Stop and Check ’ revision section in the Workbook after every third unit to allow students to review what they have been doing in class and to decide their own priorities for future self-study . |
| 29 | While it is perfectly valid for children to step back from what they have been doing in drama and write about it , the exciting alternative of writing ( or drawing , or carrying out scientific experiments ) within the context of the drama , as the characters they are playing , produces lively and highly motivated work . |
| 30 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |