Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] doing [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
2 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
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 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
7 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
10 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
11 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
12 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
13 | Er I 've been doing a , been writing a book now , for about ten years . |
14 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
15 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
16 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
17 | ‘ Hullo , Penelope , I 've been doing the flowers , ’ she said , as if an explanation of her emerging from the dining room with leaves seemed to be called for . |
18 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |
19 | ‘ I 've been doing the job for years , do n't forget . |
20 | I 've been doing the route for two years now . |
21 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
22 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
23 | Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away . |
24 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
25 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
26 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
27 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
28 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |