Example sentences of "have be doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 2 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 3 | CalMac has been doing well lately , says Alex MacDonald , chairman of the transport committee of Comhairle Nan Eilean ( the Western Isles Islands Council ) . |
| 4 | Mr Cleave 's car salvage business has been doing well and he 's recently moved to these new , bigger premises . |
| 5 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 7 | The Soviet navy has been doing so as well . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 9 | And he said : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 10 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 11 | Robert Rendel began by saying that the library has been doing very well during recent years and that the usage by our members of the library facilities had increased despite falling membership . |
| 12 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 13 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 14 | She 'd been doing more and more of his work for him . |
| 15 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 16 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 17 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 18 | Yet if they were referring to a legitimate title , why should not Pilate have been doing so as well ? |
| 19 | Schoolboy Bobby Dennison said : ‘ She missed me and my friend by inches and must have been doing about 60mph . |
| 20 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 21 | ‘ But he seems to have been doing well enough by himself . |
| 22 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 23 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 24 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 25 | However , later that evening , the First Lord of the Admiralty , James Thomas , was entertaining some Russian officials including the captain of the Ordzhonikidze , who casually asked Thomas what the frogman had been doing near his ship that morning . |
| 26 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 27 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 28 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 29 | In their view , the old party had been doing well . |
| 30 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |