Example sentences of "be doing some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so remember that , do when you do the bearings if you 're doing some , erm examples , or you 're looking through , or you 're doing some revision , get up , stand up , and think , right what 's to think of , oh it 's not there , like if I 'm taking a bearing on these flowers , it 's , well , just that much in it , you know , |
| 2 | And er they 're doing some market research , this is what it 's about , the national treasury of spoken English , a group of reading dictionary publishers and universities are participating in a government funded research project to compile a national treasury of the English language . |
| 3 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 4 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 5 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 6 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 7 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 8 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 9 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 10 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 11 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 12 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 13 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 14 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 15 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 16 | ‘ Been doing some research , have you ? ’ |
| 17 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 18 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 19 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 20 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 21 | For it received the neglect that a great deal of insider research achieves and was channelled ( unopened ) to me , accompanied by a two-line memo from a senior officer which suggested , ‘ I understand you are doing some research ; you may find this useful ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I cycle around quite often and I expect I 'll be doing some cycling in the North Yorkshire Moors during the next two months , ’ said Karen who is a member of the Tandem Club and has been a member of various Cyclist Touring Clubs . |
| 23 | ‘ Well I 'm really looking forward to opening for Gary Moore at London 's Albert Hall next month , and I 'll be doing some club dates in the UK just before that . |
| 24 | He knows that he 'll be doing some writing and he 's going to be doing an album next year . |
| 25 | These people have met new friends , gained in confidence and , most of all , self respect and would rather be doing some form of work rather than wasting away at home . |
| 26 | It was difficult to tell , but since Fleet Street had more or less stopped producing newspapers , this area was now the journalism centre of town , which meant the pubs would be doing some sort of trade . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm doing some work on optical lenses with a high refractive index and I seem to have got some … er … thallium on my sandwiches … ’ |
| 28 | I 'm working at the big hospital in Port au Prince , and I 'm doing some work for my book . ’ |
| 29 | Shh shh I 'm doing some listening now . |
| 30 | I 'm doing some listening over here . |