Example sentences of "be doing a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 're doing a bit of detective work here , what must be happening in this ? |
| 2 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 3 | I mean going round selling stuff and that sort of thing , they 're asking them , they 're doing a man 's job |
| 4 | So , if it comes out as one , one squared is one so you 've accounted for a hundred percent or all of the variants in the other variable which means that if you know X you automatically know Y , or if you know Y you automatically know X. When you 're doing a correlation study , it 's very hard to work out what 's the dependent and what 's the independent variable because by it 's nature you do n't know . |
| 5 | They 're doing a story on Jean-Claude — I should have asked you . |
| 6 | We 're doing a Traidcraft stall ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 're doing a road safety quiz this afternoon , ’ said Mel Farrar , the head of his special school . |
| 8 | I , I can remember bits of it now , but I could n't on fucking Thursday , I mean , there 's this bloke in er , they 're they 're doing a banking job , while doing a bank job and he still does n't believe he 's the main |
| 9 | No the suggestion is we 're in the golf club and we 're doing a planner we 're not doing a score card |
| 10 | They 're doing a survey |
| 11 | So anyway , we started talking about him , they 're doing a survey and er and suddenly it must of been a quarter of an hour later remember the the drinks , I have n't done any drinks ! |
| 12 | Partly because we 're doing a survey but partly to warn partly because of the emergency services aspect . |
| 13 | We 're doing a survey |
| 14 | Cos we 're doing a s we 're doing a system now for two hundred and ninety |
| 15 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 16 | erm you 're doing a perhaps you 're doing a histogram of some jobs that you 've been doing , |
| 17 | Stop what you 're doing a minute . |
| 18 | If you 're doing a purl |
| 19 | That 's what they want , as they 're doing a dictionary . |
| 20 | First , because we 're doing a network special this month , and secondly because the ‘ man who can ’ , can ! |
| 21 | And if we 're doing a bunch of dates in the same venue , it gets to sound better and better each night . |
| 22 | But if you do n't want it preserved , I think it would be so nice to have in college , if only for next year 's students , and you also would be around for the next two years , I mean if you 're doing , if you 're doing a language erm , option next year , or even a language recitation erm , this would be quite nice material to use for that . |
| 23 | That reminds me of the time at our branch they 're doing a visit , and they did n't come down my isle , and they started to walk out , so I said excuse me , have you come to look at my department or not ? |
| 24 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 25 | you 're doing a time consuming operation . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're doing a movie about industry . |
| 27 | Trouble is you 're doing a rave there as well . |
| 28 | And there 's and erm we 're doing a project on conservation and actually helping the conservation as well and erm as well cos so them up and it 's and it 's gey good for our own project . |
| 29 | Cos we 're doing a project on water |
| 30 | Now , if you 're doing a divide , you want to demote all the numbers , do n't you . |