Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 3 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 4 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 5 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 6 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 7 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 8 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 9 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 10 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 11 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 12 | As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums . |
| 13 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 14 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 15 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 16 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 17 | Jimmy Lett joined AIB in 1944 , when all investigations were concerned with World War II military aircraft , and he had been doing the job ever since . |
| 18 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |