Example sentences of "[pron] have be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 3 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 4 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 5 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 6 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 7 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 8 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 11 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 12 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 13 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 16 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 17 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 18 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 19 | And you never asked me what I had been doing . |
| 20 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 23 | 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 ! ’ |
| 24 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 25 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 26 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 28 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 29 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 30 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |