Example sentences of "have [be] do this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 2 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 3 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 4 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 5 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 6 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 7 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 8 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 9 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 10 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 11 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 12 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 13 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 14 | After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 25 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 26 | We 've been doing this |
| 27 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 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 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 30 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |