Example sentences of "[was/were] doing [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some had written letters to pop stars or relatives , others had written stories and all were doing elementary arithmetic . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Street-stalls selling hamburgers and sausages were doing good business . |
| 6 | And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 8 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 9 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 10 | John Gill , 34 , from Leeds , and Jack Wilkinson-Holmes , 54 , were doing preliminary work on a ventilation system at the Sarah Brownridge factory , Little Catterton Lane , Tadcaster , when the accident happened . |
| 11 | and Jim was lawnmowing and you were doing hard labour with Matt |
| 12 | We were like , these geeks from Oldham who were doing psychedelic stuff . |
| 13 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 14 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 15 | As the days passed difference were definitely beginning to show , the Applecross café was doing great business . |
| 16 | He was buried under subversive literature between the Gardening Society ( whose president sat framed by snaps of himself communing with plants ) and the Women 's Group , unhappily eyeing the occupant of the Rocky Horror Society stand , who , dressed in regulation suspenders and holed stockings , was doing roaring business . |
| 17 | Field was doing metallurgical chemistry in South America , and Maule had joined Simpson to start a chemical apparatus business near the Elephant & Castle . |
| 18 | ‘ Except when she was doing grand larceny on someone else 's husband . ’ |
| 19 | At the end of the road a boy was doing good business from the refrigerated box mounted over the front wheel of his bicycle . |
| 20 | Okay so Club Eighteen to Thirty was doing good business around this period because of this situation . |
| 21 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 23 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 24 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 25 | It was doing brisk trade . |
| 26 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 27 | ‘ I was doing fine art , fashion and textiles in the sixth form . |