Example sentences of "had been doing [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 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 . |