Example sentences of "but [pron] have been do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , like we 've complained about it but nothing 's been done . ’ |
| 2 | Its abolition was recommended as long ago as 1967 but nothing has been done — one suspects a feeling that it might come in useful one day . |
| 3 | That was as long ago as 8 May 1991 , but nothing has been done . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 5 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 6 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 7 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | But he 's been doing it manually have n't you Rog ? |
| 10 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 11 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 12 | Yeah , but he 's been doing really good ! |
| 13 | But it has been done before , in 1895 , by the Electrophone Company of Gerrard Street , London |
| 14 | It 's difficult to win the National two years running but it has been done . ’ |
| 15 | But it has been done before so why not again ? |
| 16 | But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’ |
| 17 | It 's just a normal shop window — you know , with lights on and these statues and that , but it 's been done like it 's someone 's dining room . |
| 18 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 19 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |