Example sentences of "they [was/were] doing [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 2 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 3 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 4 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 5 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 6 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |