Example sentences of "have been doing [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Rocastle has been doing illegal drugs |
2 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
3 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
4 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
5 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
6 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
7 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
8 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
9 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
10 | 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 ? |
11 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
12 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
13 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
14 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |