Example sentences of "[be] doing [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're doing me a favour . ’ |
| 2 | The farming bills do n't amount to much as the ones who do call me in always think they 're doing me a favour and consequently should n't be charged much . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're still very patronising to me , keep hinting that they 're doing me a favour . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 5 | We 're doing yous a favour , our lads speaks plain to you , we 're doing yous a favour . |
| 6 | We 're doing yous a favour , our lads speaks plain to you , we 're doing yous a favour . |
| 7 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 8 | Not , not as many as active though , because you could say that stock checks and checks are reactive because you 're doing it every day but , stock checks move the department forward on your stock reports . |
| 9 | The law then pretends it 's a waif or stray and that you 're doing it a favour , and all is forgiven . |
| 10 | I think you 're doing it a bit roughly Tim . |
| 11 | and , say , explain the logic of it , why you 're doing it the way you 're doing it . |
| 12 | I says , We 're doing it the right way , the proper way now you see . |
| 13 | Yeah , if they 're delayed getting on the motorway and see that they 're doing it the other side coming off , they might be saying |
| 14 | No , certain obstacles and areas where you feel you 're not er giving , you know you do n't feel as though you 're doing it the best for whatever reason . |
| 15 | They have n't cultivated the attitude that by serving you they 're doing you a favour . |
| 16 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
| 17 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 18 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 19 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 20 | If we provide teachers with only one method , we are doing them a disservice . |
| 21 | Travelling from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern cliffs of England is tough enough … 1200 muscle sapping miles … but Derek Hegarty and Neil Pascoe are doing it an even harder way … they 're competing in their own marathon triathlon … which is running swimming and cycling … so far they 've run up Ben Nevis … |
| 22 | You 'd be doing me a favour . |
| 23 | They were supposed to be doing me a favour , giving me that work , four and a half yards . |
| 24 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’ |
| 26 | But meantime you 'd be doing me a favour if you did n't ring them either . |
| 27 | You will , however , be doing them a service if you collect your specimens from a field about to be cut for hay , from a hedgerow bordering a field about to be sprayed or a site being cleared for building work . |
| 28 | If you could tell your clients that they 're on a very sticky wicket here and that I wo n't be the only woman journalist who 's utterly repulsed , you 'll be doing them a service ! |
| 29 | So far as I can see , we 'd be doing him a favour . ’ |
| 30 | I may , of course , be doing him a massive injustice . |