Example sentences of "have been doing so [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there .
3 It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years .
4 Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing .
5 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 .
6 They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years .
7 They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 .
8 Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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