Example sentences of "[pron] have be doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 3 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 4 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 5 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 6 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 7 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 8 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 9 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 10 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 11 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 12 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 13 | He had been doing voluntary work for young people , and they used to enjoy going dancing and out to a club for a drink on Saturday nights . |
| 14 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |