Example sentences of "[verb] [be] doing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he aware of the work that the Scottish Knitwear Council has been doing with departmental officials showing that in 1990 a total of 123,000 knitted garments in cashmere coming from China were dumped over the quota agreed ? |
| 2 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 3 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 4 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 5 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 6 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 8 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 9 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 13 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 14 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 15 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 16 | What would you have been doing to what , to comes up with |
| 17 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 18 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 19 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 20 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 21 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
| 22 | As we become more successful in delivering health care in the community , we discover things that we should have been doing in the past but have not done . |
| 23 | But what would she have been doing in Southwark ? |
| 24 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 25 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 26 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 27 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 28 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |