Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] a bit of " in BNC.
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1 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
2 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
3 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
4 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
5 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
8 | ‘ Perhaps Jacob 's been doing a bit of tidying up . ’ |