Example sentences of "have [be] doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle has been doing illegal drugs |
| 2 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 3 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 4 | With Halloween looming , a farmer has been doing brisk business offering ’ pick your own ’ pumpkins . |
| 5 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 6 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 7 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 8 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 9 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 10 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 11 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 12 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 13 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 14 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 15 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 16 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 17 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 18 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |
| 19 | He had been doing voluntary work for young people , and they used to enjoy going dancing and out to a club for a drink on Saturday nights . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 21 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 22 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 23 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 25 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 26 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 27 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 28 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 29 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 30 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |