Example sentences of "have been do [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 32 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 33 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 34 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 35 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 36 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 37 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 38 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 39 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 40 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 41 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 42 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 43 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 44 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 45 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 46 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 47 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 48 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 49 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 50 | You find out your wife 's been doing it with your best friend , whip in your petition for divorce and before you can say ‘ one-night stand ’ you 're a free man . |
| 51 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |