Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] doing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 2 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 3 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 4 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 5 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 6 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 7 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 8 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 9 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 10 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 11 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 12 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 13 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 14 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 15 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 16 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 17 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 19 | He had been doing voluntary work for young people , and they used to enjoy going dancing and out to a club for a drink on Saturday nights . |
| 20 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |