Example sentences of "[vb base] been doing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 4 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 5 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 6 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 7 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 8 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 9 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 10 | Cos I 've been doing round the edges |
| 11 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 12 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 13 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 14 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |
| 15 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 16 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 17 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |