Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 2 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 3 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 4 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 5 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 6 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But they loved what we 'd been doing . |
| 9 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 10 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 11 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 14 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 15 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 16 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 17 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 18 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |
| 19 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 20 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 21 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 23 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 24 | Er but we enjoyed it again it was sixpence and it was a morning you 'd been doing something and that was it . |
| 25 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 26 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 27 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 28 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 29 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 30 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |