Example sentences of "[conj] i have [be] doing " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 2 | ‘ That I have been doing , at the same time infusing some of my illustrious father 's principles of conduct into the narrative . |
| 3 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 4 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 7 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 8 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 9 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 10 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 11 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 12 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 13 | Cos I 've been doing round the edges |
| 14 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 15 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 16 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 17 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 18 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 19 | And those have gone home while I 've been doing something else for them , they 've gone , and left me ! |
| 20 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 21 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 22 | Oh cos when I 've been doing it |
| 23 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 24 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 25 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 26 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 27 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 28 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 29 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 30 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |