Example sentences of "[vb -s] be doing [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
2 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
3 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
4 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
5 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
6 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
7 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
8 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
9 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
10 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
11 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
12 | Well then if you were n't sure of your formula , if you tried the formula , who 's been doing that ? |
13 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
14 | He 's been doing that album . |
15 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
16 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
17 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
18 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
19 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |