Example sentences of "were do [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War .
2 ‘ If the Americans ever find out what we were doing at the Jenner Clinic , ’ Hennessy told him gloomily , ‘ I wo n't even make it that far . ’
3 Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty .
4 ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle .
5 Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory .
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