Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 2 | It 's not like reading a story , which you have been doing because you 're a child and you read children 's stories in which you have people and things , it 's about entirely abstract ideas and |
| 3 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 4 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 7 | Afterwards , Anderson said to Howard , ‘ Everything I 've been doing has been wrong . ’ |
| 8 | I have two children aged five and 10 and I tell them everything I 've been doing . |
| 9 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 11 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 12 | You must tell me everything you 've been doing . |
| 13 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Uncle Albert hesitantly , ‘ it would certainly cap everything we 've been doing if you did find a black hole . |
| 15 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 16 | As you know , you do a half halt before asking for a transition , because it 's more polite than shouting ‘ Oi ! ’ , but Skipper seemed to forget about the legs bit and would go into whatever pace was faster than the one he had been doing . |
| 17 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 18 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 19 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 20 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 21 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 22 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 24 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 25 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 26 | It 's what I 've been doing today . |
| 27 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Is that what I 've been doing ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Know what I 've been doing ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |