Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 2 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 5 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 9 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 13 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 15 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 19 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 20 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 25 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 26 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |