Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] doing [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been doing smack on and off for about five years . |
| 4 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 5 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 6 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 7 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 8 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 9 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 10 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 11 | Hello Claire says she 's been doing pie charts on your computer . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been doing replacement parts for many years and although that 's still a big part of our business , I wanted to sell complete , good-quality guitars and the Austin Special and the 555 are just perfect for us . |
| 13 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 14 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 15 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 16 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |
| 17 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 18 | He had been doing road duty when the first wagons rolled past , with a US Cavalry Escort , and he had looked upon the face of the Josephite leader and known that these were the last days of the world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Charles defended the man stoutly , and asked instead , what the hell the driver thought he had been doing careering up and down the lochside like that . |