Example sentences of "[vb base] be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you . |
| 2 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 3 | ‘ So , tell me how you 've been , what you 've been doing . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 8 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps I do know your potential , through the work we 've been doing , but you 're not a computer : you have autonomy . |
| 10 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been doing very little , but the usual things have been happening all around me . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 13 | After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have . |
| 14 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 15 | We 've been doing it so long now ( a good ten years , maybe ) that we have turned into what we do . |
| 16 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 17 | ‘ Darling — tell me what you 've been doing . |
| 18 | You mean to say you 've been doing everything ? ’ gasped Breeze . |
| 19 | ‘ You look very pale , ’ she went on ; ‘ you 've been doing too much , my dear . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 21 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know what you 've been doing to yourself , girl . |
| 23 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
| 24 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 25 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 26 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 27 | You must tell me everything you 've been doing . |
| 28 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 29 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 30 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |