Example sentences of "[adv] what [pers pn] have be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 2 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 3 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 4 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 5 | Planning is just what she had been doing . |
| 6 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 7 | No I bloody would n't , he said cor that 's awful ! and it it 's just what he 's been doing . |
| 8 | Well exactly what we have been doing . |
| 9 | of course , that 's exactly what she had been doing . |
| 10 | And I 'll let him know exactly what you 've been doing . |
| 11 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 12 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |
| 13 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |