Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have be doing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 3 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 4 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 5 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 6 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 10 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 11 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 12 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 13 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 14 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 16 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 17 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 18 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 19 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 20 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 21 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 22 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 23 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 24 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 25 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 26 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 27 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 28 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 29 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |