Example sentences of "[was/were] doing [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 2 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 3 | THE campaigners who took their seasonal message to the banks yesterday were doing them a favour . |
| 4 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 5 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 6 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 7 | This afternoon you came to my office as if you were doing me a favour . |
| 8 | Now you were doing it a very neat way , a quick way , of doing it all in one go , were n't you ? |
| 9 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 10 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 11 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 12 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 13 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 14 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 15 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 16 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 17 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 18 | and one of them was doing them a halfpenny cheaper ! |
| 19 | Well as far as I was concerned , I was doing what a doctor told me . |
| 20 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
| 21 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 22 | Dressed with extreme casualness himself in trainers and jeans , he ignored her outfit and she was left feeling uncomfortably in the wrong , almost as if he was doing her a favour by not commenting on her appearance . |
| 23 | Roman did n't take kindly to any woman 's refusal , and he no doubt thought he was doing her an honour in wanting her when he thought she had belonged to Garry . |
| 24 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |
| 25 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 27 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 28 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |