Example sentences of "[verb] [been] do a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’
2 It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing !
3 The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk .
4 The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems .
5 So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy ,
6 No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better .
7 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
8 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
9 Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking .
10 ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
11 The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books .
12 If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse .
13 The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said .
14 ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’
15 ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi .
16 If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing .
17 February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 I 've been doing a lot of that lately .
21 ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said .
22 You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame
23 Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days
24 Virgin had , to a large extent , been built on Branson 's abilities at man-management and manipulation — his unrivalled capacity , as one friend put it , ‘ to get people to do things for him , and feel that they are the ones who have been done a favour ’ .
25 ‘ You have been doing a job .
26 Yes , they have been doing a number of things in the past , I think the Y T S or new youth training as it is now , was a good thing , it had a lot of criticism .
27 Something I have been doing a lot these last days .
28 ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me .
29 ‘ Perhaps Jacob 's been doing a bit of tidying up . ’
30 It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk .
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