Example sentences of "been doing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past two years , police say , prostitutes have been doing a lively business in the Golden Acres apartments — a group of flats filled with retired old men . |
| 2 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 3 | The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said . |
| 4 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 5 | They have , it seems , been doing a brisk trade . |
| 6 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 7 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 11 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
| 13 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 14 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 17 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Been doing a little searching on my own account , ’ I told him . |
| 22 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
| 23 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 24 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 25 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 26 | Er I 've been doing a , been writing a book now , for about ten years . |
| 27 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 28 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 29 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |