Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been doing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been doing smack on and off for about five years . |
| 4 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 5 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 6 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 7 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 8 | I 've been doing skyscapes all day . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing locums , ’ Joanna said briefly . |
| 10 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 11 | You 've been doing things the same way for years and you know you can get things across , but … |
| 12 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 13 | You 've been doing Venn diagrams as well ? |
| 14 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 15 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 16 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 17 | Hello Claire says she 's been doing pie charts on your computer . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 19 | But I talked to psychologist about it , and she said it 's a lot more interesting than that , what you 're forgetting is , that change is usually perceived as criticism , what 's wrong with the way we 've been doing things . |
| 20 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been doing replacement parts for many years and although that 's still a big part of our business , I wanted to sell complete , good-quality guitars and the Austin Special and the 555 are just perfect for us . |
| 22 | Because we 've been doing Pythagoras theorem . |
| 23 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 24 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 25 | Dr Edgar Munhill , the Frick 's Curator , pointed out to The Art Newspaper , ‘ We have been doing exhibitions here for almost twenty years around aspects of our own collection , often not well known to the general public . |
| 26 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 27 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 28 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 29 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 30 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |