Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] do that " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
2 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
3 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
4 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
5 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
6 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
7 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
8 | I 've been doing that . |
9 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
10 | I 've been doing that today as well . |
11 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
12 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
13 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
14 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
15 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
16 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
17 | Well then if you were n't sure of your formula , if you tried the formula , who 's been doing that ? |
18 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
19 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
20 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
21 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
22 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
23 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
24 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
25 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
26 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
27 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
28 | Yeah but i it has been done that , but |
29 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
30 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |