Example sentences of "[pron] have been doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 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 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 4 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 5 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 6 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |