Example sentences of "[pron] have been doing [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 6 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 11 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
| 12 | I 've been doing the route for two years now . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been doing the job for years , do n't forget . |
| 14 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
| 18 | Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away . |
| 19 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 20 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 21 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
| 23 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 30 | But when she went out , she saw the girl who had been doing the flowers waiting in the porch , and guessed that she must be the Vicar 's wife . |