Example sentences of "have been doing [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 2 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 4 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 5 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 6 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 7 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 8 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 9 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 10 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 11 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 12 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 14 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 15 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 16 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 17 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 18 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 19 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 22 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 29 | We 've been doing these for about six . |
| 30 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |