Example sentences of "he was doing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could say that he was doing all of this so that he 'd end up behaving like one of us . |
| 2 | But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything . |
| 3 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 4 | If you like him , or he was doing other |
| 5 | He was doing one hundred and twenty ! |
| 6 | This simply means that he felt that he was doing one thing when , in fact , he was really doing the opposite . |
| 7 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 8 | He was doing that now from the memory . |
| 9 | I could see he was doing that deliberately , out of embarrassment . |
| 10 | I mean he was doing that before we ever started audio description and now |
| 11 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 12 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 13 | I think he was an amateur who either thought he 'd succeeded or else was so nervous about what he was doing that he left knowing there had n't been time to kill you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I could see he was doing that , ’ Claudine murmured sweetly . |
| 15 | Yes , but he was doing that a second ago . |
| 16 | Then he was doing that 's the planner he was doing the card at the same time erm Anyway that 's the there 's the that 's the the , but I need to make a decision |
| 17 | And whilst he was doing that operation where was P C ? |
| 18 | cos he he thought he was a mechanic because he was doing that sort of work . |
| 19 | He was doing that about five minutes ago . |
| 20 | I thought he was doing that again . |
| 21 | He was doing that with business anyway . |
| 22 | He was doing that . |
| 23 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 24 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |
| 25 | After a short while Alexander noticed that he was doing three things while reciting ; these actions were not present when using his normal speaking voice : |
| 26 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 27 | Endill could n't understand what he was doing wrong . |
| 28 | Then again , he rejected the Lord Jesus knowing full well that he was doing wrong . |
| 29 | He wore it when he was doing any mucky jobs . |
| 30 | He was doing some other thing than dancing . ’ |