Example sentences of "be doing some [noun] " 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 ‘ I 've been doing some calculations .
20 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 .
21 I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking
22 When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there .
23 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 ’ .
24 to be doing some exercises
25 ‘ 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 .
26 We might be investigating it with an experiment or we might be doing some calculations on it .
27 ‘ 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 .
28 He knows that he 'll be doing some writing and he 's going to be doing an album next year .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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