Example sentences of "[verb] [been] doing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 2 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 3 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 5 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 6 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 7 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 8 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 13 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 14 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 15 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 16 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 20 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 21 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |