Example sentences of "[vb base] be doing [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 2 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 3 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 5 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 6 | ‘ Since 1968 we 've been doing our best to piece the fragments into a satisfying whole . |
| 7 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 8 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 9 | Most people imagine that they are fairly competent communicators ; adults have been doing it all their lives ! |
| 10 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 11 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 12 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |