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Example sentences for "been doing"

  • Whatever have ye been doing to yourself, honey?

  • A Rock and a Flame The first time Linda entered the kitchen after her interview with Gilman, Katy asked in deep concern, "Now what ye been doing, lambie?

  • She dreaded meeting her at dinner that night, and she wondered all the way home where Eileen had gone from the bank and what she had been doing.

  • For that matter, it's nothing like what you men have been doing--taking money from Carrington and Morton.

  • I do not know in the least what she may have been doing; but, whatever it is, it's entirely apart from me.

  • Tis that same she's been doing--the saints preserve her!

  • He's been doing a little chemistry in his amateurish way in the mills there.

  • Oh, I've been doing a little reading and thinking and studying for the past year.

  • I've been doing a great deal of thinking while I was away.

  • Smoke, and tell me what you've been doing.

  • You may argue that for seven years I've been doing a big work and there's no reason, in spite of what's happened, that I should now abandon it all.

  • And I'd say you've been doing it mighty well.

  • I don't believe he's been doing anything.

  • It's something that Mr. Stoller's been doing to him.

  • Then he looked up and asked: "What do you suppose he's been doing?

  • Suddenly] You haven't been doing that, father?

  • The more I've hated what I've been doing, the more sure I've been.

  • In as much as you don't know where I was or what I've been doing, it will not compromise you if I say that I found a thirty-eight calibre revolver with three empty shells in the cylinder.

  • I see no reason why we can't tell our family and friends what we've been doing.

  • You shouldn't write about it for the simple reason that Lieutenant Hauser ordered us to say nothing of the things we've been doing on this trip.

  • You mean we can't even write our friends about what we've been doing on this trip?

  • It's utterly silly not letting us tell anything about what we've been doing in the swamp.

  • And I guess 'tain't harder work than what I've been doing to-day.

  • Then we'll continue working the way we've been doing it.

  • The ghost did exactly what he's been doing.

  • But what had the figures actually been doing?

  • And somewhere, in all the running around and looking here and there I've been doing, I've got all the facts I need to come up with that answer.

  • And he had just thought of a way to keep Boyd from knowing what he'd been doing.

  • They've been doing quite a bit of research into the subject, and their theories seem to be all right, or nearly all right, to me.

  • I simply couldn't bear to think of this terrible thing dropping upon you out of a clear sky if--if you hadn't been doing anything to deserve it.

  • Have I been doing you an injustice by not allowing for a promotion in the three years and a half?

  • I know what you've been doing, just as well as if you'd told me the whole story.

  • What can I do, more than I've been doing?

  • Mike, you know I've been doing my best to do His will; can you give me that protection?

  • Perhaps we've been doing one or two of them a little injustice?

  • What makes it worse," he went on, "is that I've been doing you an injustice in a kind of way.

  • I've been doing it for a month now," he complained.

  • My prescience tells me that what you've been doing is right and necessary.

  • All right, let's take a look at what you've been doing.

  • I've been so looking forward to hearing about all you've been doing.

  • I've been doing a lot of work, meeting a lot of people.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been doing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already have; been away; been described; been destroyed; been done; been for; been formed; been going; been havin; been having; been killed; been known; been left; been removed; been revealed; been said; been sent; been sitting; been the; certain stage; formerly related; hidden from; important article; knew just; such wise; thou shalt not eat