Example sentences of "have been doing [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 2 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 3 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 7 | the resident engineer has been doing the measure and also agreeing the valuations . |
| 8 | Indeed , insiders suggest that Motorola is now actively encouraging existing and potential 88000 users to start looking at PowerPC : talk of a NeXT portable has been doing the rounds . |
| 9 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 10 | I hear that Nicolas Thompson has been doing the rounds of literary agents in an attempt to improve the image of Reed Consumer Books among the agenting community . |
| 11 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 12 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 13 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 14 | Club secretary John Ritchie , who is also the Northern League 's registration secretary said : ‘ We 're sorry to be losing Vic , but the man has been doing the job since December and not received a penny . |
| 15 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
| 16 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 17 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 18 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said . |
| 23 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 24 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 25 | But when she went out , she saw the girl who had been doing the flowers waiting in the porch , and guessed that she must be the Vicar 's wife . |
| 26 | His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there . |
| 27 | Jimmy Lett joined AIB in 1944 , when all investigations were concerned with World War II military aircraft , and he had been doing the job ever since . |
| 28 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 29 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |