Example sentences of "[was/were] doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unofficial copies were doing great business at the Brighton Conservative Party Conference … and at three pounds each , they 're ten pounds cheaper than the official Government version . |
| 2 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 3 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 4 | Ooh we were doing complex numbers . |
| 5 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 6 | Some had written letters to pop stars or relatives , others had written stories and all were doing elementary arithmetic . |
| 7 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 8 | Whilst they were doing five shows a day and rehearsing at the Paramount , they were told to double at the Lido . |
| 9 | we were doing two things . |
| 10 | Then you would need two of the , two of these sheets if you were doing two conversations , but only one if you 've done one . |
| 11 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 12 | Community workshops were doing good work with the under-eighteens , but it was felt that an adult employment and training agency was an important need . |
| 13 | Street-stalls selling hamburgers and sausages were doing good business . |
| 14 | at the time , I said we were , I was doing sixty hours a week in me car , we were doing six nights a week cabaret and he was driving all day |
| 15 | Twelve year olds were doing that kind of task on a computer . |
| 16 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 17 | Well while we were doing that mummy was being all these clothes ready for her birthday . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , Fernando , I do n't care what Steve and Maria Luisa were doing all night — ’ |
| 19 | I just want to phone Steve and find out what he and Maria Luisa were doing all night — as if I ca n't guess . ’ |
| 20 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 21 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 22 | Two students were studying for an MSc by research , and the rest were doing other things . |
| 23 | We were doing other things last year . |
| 24 | We were doing other things . |
| 25 | Erm it may be that the people who were right down at the bottom like that were people who were doing other things as well and were say blacksmiths or whatever |
| 26 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 27 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 28 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 29 | were doing this programme in the United States that 'll be , but then of course you living in the States you 'll probably all have guns |
| 30 | The Blackburn were doing this moslem prayer arm-worship thing going ‘ Shearer-Shearer ’ . |