Example sentences of "the [noun] had be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | The LCD had been doing its best for the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 3 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 4 | However , later that evening , the First Lord of the Admiralty , James Thomas , was entertaining some Russian officials including the captain of the Ordzhonikidze , who casually asked Thomas what the frogman had been doing near his ship that morning . |
| 5 | England was finally forced to look at what the rest of the world had been doing with the game . |
| 6 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 7 | He went out of the gate , wondering what the rest of the unit had been doing . |