Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the House of Commons Environment Committee our waste control regulations are a ‘ shambles ’ , and nothing has been done about nitrates and excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers as requested by the EC . |
| 2 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 5 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 8 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 9 | In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything . |
| 10 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 11 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been doing as you suggested the other day — putting the patients first . ’ |
| 13 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 14 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 15 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 17 | Cos I 've been doing round the edges |
| 18 | I have been done over in the street . |
| 19 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 22 | The attribution of a particular ‘ legal ’ character to certain problems underlies the research which has been done into ‘ unmet legal need ’ for it is by no means every problem which requires the assistance of a lawyer in its resolution . |
| 23 | This research aims to study the amount , patterns , and causes of the geographical mobility of population within Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to compare the findings with work which has been done on other European countries , particularly England . |
| 24 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 25 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 26 | Perhaps they have read or heard of some of the research which has been done in this field in recent years , and it has opened up their minds . |
| 27 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 28 | In this assessment of the sexual climate we may now look at some of the more reputable work which has been done in this country to analyse sexual experience and attitudes among our population . |
| 29 | And it 's a patch clamp recording which has been done in an inside-out patch , that is with the physiological inside of the membrane facing the bathing medium , so we have experimental control over what the er physiological inside of the membrane is seeing here . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a shame that we are being penalised for something which has been done by the football club , but there does not seem to be anything we can do about it . |