Example sentences of "[be] doing the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're doing the oval shaped box , as well as little round ones which can be used for flower decorations , and boxes with handles . |
| 2 | You may feel rather unsure of what you want in life mid-June , Capricorn , but by the end of the month , you will know that you 're doing the right thing ! |
| 3 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 4 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 5 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 6 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 7 | So I believe we 're doing the right thing , I think it 's for the good of the country I think it 's for the good of the company and the shareholders . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But , we 're doing the right thing for |
| 10 | The draught from that 's , yeah so you 're not sure whether you 're doing the right thing or not |
| 11 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
| 12 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 13 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 14 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 15 | I think all the work that we did indicates that there the productivity is one issue , that unless you 're doing the two point eight or whatever 's in the budget , you know , we 're not gon na get near it . |
| 16 | We 're doing the real work 90 per cent of the time . |
| 17 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 18 | And they said , ‘ But they 're doing the best they can ’ . |
| 19 | and his response when , you 're doing the audio description as well , you know if the Society for the Blind wants to organize , I mean |
| 20 | Erm can you confirm that we 're doing the Green World stuffing ? |
| 21 | a London colloquialism has been used , Napier were saying that we 're doing the tutoring we would be happy to set the exam paper but with say |
| 22 | No , the queen , the top one , you know we 're doing the top one , now we 're doing Sleepy underneath it |
| 23 | Do you know you 're doing the three times table ? |
| 24 | But now they 're doing the whole thing all over again . |
| 25 | They 're doing the exact opposite of what female sea horses are doing . |
| 26 | You 're doing the same ! |
| 27 | ‘ If you build more prisons you 're doing the same thing , ’ the Governor said . |
| 28 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 29 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |
| 30 | And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know . |