Example sentences of "have be doing a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
2 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
6 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
7 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
8 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
9 | 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 . |
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 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
13 | If you like , I 've been doing a job which I should n't be doing . |
14 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
15 | ‘ 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
18 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
19 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
20 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
21 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
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 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
24 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
25 | ‘ Perhaps Jacob 's been doing a bit of tidying up . ’ |
26 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
27 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
28 | No , Rose said : he 's been doing an exorcism . |