Example sentences of "have been doing [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 2 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 3 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 4 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 5 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 6 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 7 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 8 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 9 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 10 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 12 | I 've been doing most of my cooking with the |
| 13 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 14 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 15 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 16 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 17 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 18 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 19 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |
| 20 | As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums . |
| 21 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 22 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |