Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be doing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 2 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 3 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 4 | That is what I 've been doing and I have had some marvellous views of them . ’ |
| 5 | Oh it 's co cos you 've been doing that I expect . |
| 6 | so she said while you 've been doing that she said she 's been sort of gassing to anybody you know , so she said it 's been mentioned by management and they said oh well she 'll be able to sort of hovering while she stood there you know , time , time to natter she could be erm , got time to do that . |
| 7 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 8 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 9 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 10 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 11 | It 's not like reading a story , which you have been doing because you 're a child and you read children 's stories in which you have people and things , it 's about entirely abstract ideas and |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ said Uncle Albert hesitantly , ‘ it would certainly cap everything we 've been doing if you did find a black hole . |
| 13 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 14 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 15 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 16 | Hamish McLeod from the University of Edinburgh will describe what he has been doing and discuss what teachers might do . |
| 17 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |