Example sentences of "doing [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | he was so carried away with Newley that I believe quite unconsciously , Newley crept into Bowie 's voice and , as you know , he 's been accused of copying Tony Newley , but I do n't think he was really aware of what he was doing at that time . |
| 2 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 3 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 4 | The most effective method is that of asking all members of a sample of households to keep diaries , noting what they are doing at all times of the day . |
| 5 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 6 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 7 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 8 | No one knew where he 'd gone ; everyone was worried sick ; and by the look of her , Shirley Brown was worried the sickest : what could a man be doing at this time of night , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 9 | They would visit to see what it was doing at particular times , like haymaking . |
| 10 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 11 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |