Example sentences of "[verb] [be] do [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 2 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 3 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 4 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 5 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 6 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |