Example sentences of "been do [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 2 | Virgin had , to a large extent , been built on Branson 's abilities at man-management and manipulation — his unrivalled capacity , as one friend put it , ‘ to get people to do things for him , and feel that they are the ones who have been done a favour ’ . |
| 3 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 4 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 5 | When this first draft has been done the researcher has something which can be worked on . |
| 6 | Once this has been done the receiver 's job is finished and the remaining assets will revert to their owners or to less fortunate unsecured creditors . |
| 7 | In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable . |
| 8 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 9 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 10 | The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said . |
| 11 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 12 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 13 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 14 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 15 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps Jacob 's been doing a bit of tidying up . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
| 20 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
| 21 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 22 | Yes , they have been doing a number of things in the past , I think the Y T S or new youth training as it is now , was a good thing , it had a lot of criticism . |
| 23 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 25 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 26 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 27 | The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems . |
| 28 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 29 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 30 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |