Example sentences of "doing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 2 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 3 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 5 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 7 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 8 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 9 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 10 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 11 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 12 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 13 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 14 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 17 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 18 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 19 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 20 | What was he doing as a Black and Tan officer ? |
| 21 | I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree that what we are doing through the national curriculum , and especially in the testing of seven , 11 , 14 and 16-year-olds , will ensure not only that we can monitor progress on standards , but that pupils who are falling behind will be given the assistance that they need to improve . |
| 22 | What is the Minister doing about a comprehensive fuel policy ? |
| 23 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 24 | As Fleming shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin with Chain and Florey in 1945 , one may reasonably ask what he was doing during the critical years 1938 to 1942 . |
| 25 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 26 | I should imagine that Irene Charial might be in the habit of dropping in on her uncle occasionally and he would n't want her saying , ‘ Whatever are you doing with a spare radio in your cabin , Uncle ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I first met Stephen it was all , ‘ what 's she doing with a young man like that ? ’ |
| 28 | Though what she 's doing with a thick Irish cunt like you is beyond me . ’ |
| 29 | If you want to know how you 're doing with the other person , you need to ask . |
| 30 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |