Example sentences of "was do [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the scrubbing was done Mrs Morey found an occupation which would involve the children , and going there was the highlight of their lives . |
| 2 | Peg tried to keep her hair tightly braided , but the moment it was done Anna would shake it free . |
| 3 | In front of the studio back cloth of a painted garden , each mother in turn sat for a portrait with her offspring , and when that was done Ernest offered to take an extra group of them all , as a free gift . |
| 4 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 5 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
| 6 | ‘ I was , ’ she retorted , but swiftly realised that she was doing Cara no favours by snapping in retaliation , and bit back the ‘ but you were n't ’ which begged to be allowed to follow . |
| 7 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 8 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 9 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 10 | Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings . |
| 11 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 12 | When Neil Kinnock was doing Mr Smith 's job , his leadership was undermined by the unremitting hostility of sections of the media . |
| 13 | See the old man was saying when he was doing Salisbury Plain they blew up couple of and a couple of |
| 14 | And then it just depended , it 's up to you to get yourself so if you know you 're going , well say I was doing Hayes . |