Example sentences of "[pers pn] was do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington . |
| 5 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 6 | ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’ |
| 7 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 8 | It was done with the co-operation and permission of the Nature Conservancy Council so as to avoid ecological damage , and I would like to point out politely that it is a private road . |
| 9 | But in October 1341 , relieved of financial pressure by the desertion of some allies and by the bankruptcy of his Italian bankers , Edward repealed the offending statutes , though it is significant that it was done with the advice and assent of the earls , barons and other wise men . |
| 10 | When it was done before in the republic , you wan na quote history , you wan na quote it accurately , it was done with the agreement of a sovereign people . |
| 11 | And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well . |
| 12 | Albeit I think it was done for the parish council so . |
| 13 | It was done by the Play Bus man , that 's what you 're thinking |
| 14 | I think it was done by the head or somebody else . |
| 15 | And you said it was done in the forest . ’ |
| 16 | Well I thought it was done like the army , army volunteer line so let's get on |
| 17 | Much of it was to do with the personality of the editor , Richard Neville . |
| 18 | I think a lot of it was to do with the fact that I 'd never driven in the dark before . |
| 19 | Managing director , Chris Dawes , says the company decided that it should be concentrating on what it was doing with the box , rather than the box itself . |
| 20 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 21 | I suppose you asked him , sir , what he was doing up the tree ? ’ |
| 22 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 23 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 24 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 25 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 26 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 27 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 28 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 29 | Do you know what he was doing in the car ? |