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You have been doing well at school so far.

And again, upon taking a share and the management of this business, another infected collection fell to my lot, so that I have been doing earnest battle with this disease since its first appearance amongst us, and I must confess that, up to a very short time back, I had come in for a great deal the worst of the fight, although I had made use of every agent I could imagine as being likely to aid me, and all that many competent friends could suggest.

Would he have been doing that?

‘You know you have been doing wrong, or you wouldn’t be driven to uttering an untruth to me.

But Telemachus could not yet believe that it was his father, and said: "You are not my father, but some god is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter; no mortal man could of himself contrive to do as you have been doing, and make yourself old and young at a moment's notice, unless a god were with him.

No other beggar or stranger has been allowed to hear what we say among ourselves; the wine must have been doing you a mischief, as it does with all those who drink immoderately.

This is what they must have been doing to you; for you always used to be a reasonable person.

I am not clever at my needle, yet," said Caddy, glancing at the repairs on Peepy's frock, "but perhaps I shall improve, and since I have been engaged to Prince and have been doing all this, I have felt better-tempered, I hope, and more forgiving to Ma.

All the time we were out, the two gentlemen smoked incessantly-which, I thought, if I might judge from the smell of their rough coats, they must have been doing, ever since the coats had first come home from the tailor's.

Candidates have been doing it in big American cities for more than a century now.

But, except in the highly attenuated sense that Saunders was boosting the ratings of radio stations that were playing LaVerne Baker and Little Richard and the Cadillacs and the Coasters, she wasn't really putting money into these groups' pockets (or, as was more often the case, these groups' record labels' pockets)--as she would have been doing had she bought their records after hearing them on the radio.

txt Auf Wiedersehen, Pat Leading figures in the GOP have been doing their utmost to persuade Pat Buchanan to stay in their party.

It's not as if the heterosexuals have been doing such a great job as keepers of the flame.

Even dentists have been doing it.

And third, of course, is that this suggests a new lyric for the Cole Porter standard, "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)": "Birds do it, bees do it/ Patients should assume nothing, even dentists have been doing it/ Let's do it, let's fall in love.

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