Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] do [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 2 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 4 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
| 5 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 12 | I 've been doing the route for two years now . |
| 13 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 14 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 15 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |
| 16 | ‘ Hullo , Penelope , I 've been doing the flowers , ’ she said , as if an explanation of her emerging from the dining room with leaves seemed to be called for . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been doing the job for years , do n't forget . |
| 18 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
| 24 | Arguments over intellectual property rights and re-writing code have been doing the rounds of the court system for years . |
| 25 | on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years |
| 26 | I watch Southport , who have been doing the business this season , and I have noticed an increase in our crowd attendances . |
| 27 | While it is wise to show a certain deference to those older than you who have been doing the job for years and who would be alienated by over-confident brashness , you must not look as though you might be a drag on whoever you are hoping to work with . |
| 28 | And on days when you feel altogether too slobby either to run or swim , you can weigh yourself , confident in the knowledge that because you have cut out all alcohol and fat and have been doing the running and swimming , your weight will have fallen . |