Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 2 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So she 's been doing it to hurry things on , has she ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 6 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 7 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 8 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 9 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 10 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 13 | Cos I 've been doing round the edges |
| 14 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |
| 15 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 16 | Oh it 's co cos you 've been doing that I expect . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 19 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 20 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 21 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 22 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 23 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 24 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 25 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 26 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 27 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 28 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 29 | Because we 've been doing Pythagoras theorem . |
| 30 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |