Example sentences of "what he [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you asked him , sir , what he was doing up the tree ? ’ |
| 2 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 3 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 4 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 5 | What 's is was what he was doing at the main committee anyway . . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 8 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 9 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 10 | Do you know what he was doing in the car ? |