Example sentences of "have been do [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 2 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 3 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 4 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 5 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 6 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 7 | No one had been doing any proper hunting for days , because Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) would provide , according to Nisodemus . |
| 8 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 9 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 10 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 11 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 12 | So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 16 | You 've been doing those alright have n't you . |
| 17 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 18 | All of us , to a greater or lesser extent , have been doing this all our lives . |