Example sentences of "[verb] be doing [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 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 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 4 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 5 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 6 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 8 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 9 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 11 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 17 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 18 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 19 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 20 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 21 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 22 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 23 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 24 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 25 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 26 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 27 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 30 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |