Example sentences of "been doing for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ! ’
2 Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’
3 Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning .
4 That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions .
5 Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years .
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 ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’
8 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 .
9 ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months !
10 But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes .
11 In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now .
12 ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it .
13 I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’
14 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 .
15 ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’
16 It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months .
17 a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last
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