Example sentences of "been doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 2 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 5 | 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 7 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 8 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 9 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 10 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 11 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 14 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 15 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 16 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 17 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 18 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 19 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 20 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 21 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 22 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 23 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 27 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 30 | 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 . |