Example sentences of "[pers pn] be do [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store .
2 I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory .
3 What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it .
4 I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe .
5 I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring .
6 What would I be doing in a week 's time ?
7 ‘ No , ’ agreed Cheryl , ‘ and that 's the best of all , because Angela 's helping me with my semaphore , which is one of the Challenges I 'm doing on the Brownie Highway . ’
8 ‘ I 've never hurt anyone with a challenge or anything like that , so I 'm in control of what I 'm doing on the pitch .
9 I 'm concentrating on what I 'm doing at the moment .
10 ‘ I 'm quite happy with what I 'm doing at the moment , ’ she says , ‘ but obviously , I 'd be interested … ’
11 It 's something I 'm doing at the moment .
12 You , you might think , ooh I do n't really know what I 'm doing at the moment er perhaps I could n't do it on my own .
13 It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day .
14 Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me .
15 I could n't square what I was doing with the view of the world I have tried to transmit to my pubescent son : sex is a wonderful thing but it should be part of a loving relationship .
16 The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter .
17 Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington .
18 ‘ Can you leave what you are doing for a while ? ’
19 ‘ Would you leave off what you are doing for a moment ?
20 ‘ For what you are doing at the church house , I mean , ’ Owen explained .
21 Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches .
22 ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest .
23 Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling .
24 And they know what you 're doing at the moment do they whilst you 're not serving them ice-cream .
25 Now though Chris , this er is a charity and obviously you 've , you 've got research money from them ; if there was n't a charity like this , would you be able to do the sort of research that you 're doing at the moment ?
26 I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client .
27 Whatever you 're doing over the weekend of 28th/29th November , forget it , your time could be better spent …
28 And if you can express what you 're doing in a way which catches their imagination , you 've got marvellous media material .
29 You did n't know what you were doing at the time .
30 After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby .
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