Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] been do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 3 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 4 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
| 5 | A dejected Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ We did as we have been doing in every game . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |
| 7 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 8 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 9 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |
| 10 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
| 11 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |