Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] 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 've been doing that . ’ |
6 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
7 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
8 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
9 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
10 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
11 | I 've been doing that . |
12 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
13 | I 've been doing that today as well . |
14 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
15 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
16 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
17 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
18 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
19 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
20 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
21 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
22 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
23 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
24 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
25 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
26 | That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . |
27 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
28 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
29 | It does n't matter what you state , cos we had heard from other pe , I 've been doing this , I 've been up here last weekend cos I am so angry about all this ! |
30 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |