Example sentences of "[noun] were do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when top impressionists like Harry Enfield and John Sessions were doing the voices , and the very idea of a moving 3-D caricature commentary on topical matters with a genuinely daring anti-royal agenda was new and sexy , Spitting Image was unmissable . |
| 2 | Yet women like Jane Nicholson were doing the really important things . ’ |
| 3 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 4 | Jehan nodded , and he saw that others in the room were doing the same . |
| 5 | Putting together what we know about girls " apprenticeships — lasting three or four years — and wage rates , it can be deduced that from the age of say 17 until perhaps 25 for those who married , women compositors were doing the equivalent of full-time typesetting for wages that varied between half and two-thirds the adult male wage , depending on whether stab or piece rates are measured . |
| 6 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 7 | She laughed with him , amazed that she was still able to function normally while her insides were doing the Twist ! |
| 8 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 9 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 10 | Most evenings he was able to relax in a much safer part of London , from his point of view : the West End , where the theatres and the cabarets , the smart restaurants and the exclusive nightspots were doing the sort of trade their proprietors had previously only dreamed about . |
| 11 | Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks . |
| 12 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 13 | The others were doing the same jobs they had during peacetime : baker , steward , purser , electrician , storekeeper . |
| 14 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |