Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 2 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 8 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 9 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 10 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 11 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 12 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 13 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 14 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 15 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |