Example sentences of "[verb] been doing [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 11 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 14 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 15 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 16 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 17 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 18 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 19 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 21 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 22 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 23 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 24 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 27 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 28 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 29 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 30 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |