Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [be] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors say they are doing the best they can but Bill Dixon , chairman of the authority 's housing committee , admitted : ‘ We are operating on a knife edge . ’ |
| 2 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 5 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 6 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 7 | look who 's doing the whole lot apparently he just had to do , he just had to model that , he did n't get a chance to do it properly |
| 8 | No , the queen , the top one , you know we 're doing the top one , now we 're doing Sleepy underneath it |
| 9 | Guess who 's doing the extra day ? got my dad to cover a day . |
| 10 | So I believe we 're doing the right thing , I think it 's for the good of the country I think it 's for the good of the company and the shareholders . |
| 11 | I bet he was doing the same the year before . |
| 12 | You think you 're doing the right thing by eating olive oil pure oils but |
| 13 | If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this . |
| 14 | A delightful thing to be i I think you was doing the same to Cathy were n't you ? |
| 15 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |