Example sentences of "be doing the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | ‘ Yeah , we 're doing the 23rd December at Hammersmith . |
3 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
4 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
5 | When you are doing the first draft , label as many points on the axes as possible . |
6 | ‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well . |
7 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
8 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
9 | were doing the first |
10 | He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing . |