Example sentences of "have been doing [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 2 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 3 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 4 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 5 | ‘ You look very pale , ’ she went on ; ‘ you 've been doing too much , my dear . |
| 6 | You 've been doing too much . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been doing very little , but the usual things have been happening all around me . ’ |
| 8 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 9 | When such researchers have been doing just this for over 100 years , is it not sensible to take note of what they are saying ? |
| 10 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 11 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |