Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 2 | It was nice to be alone with him in Faye and Bill 's room , even though they were only doing the most mundane of jobs — stripping bed linen , dismantling head- and base-boards , and struggling with the big double mattress . |
| 3 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 4 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 5 | The literature ( especially Macdonald 's 1904 account ) is full of references to women 's " pessimistic and listless " attitude to the fight for higher wages , but as we have already noted , women were often inclined to agree that they were not doing the " full job " , a view in which they were daily fortified by both masters and men . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 8 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 9 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 11 | With another full evening of entertainment ahead , many of the passengers were probably doing the same , she realised , relishing the needle-sharp tingling of the water as it cascaded over her shoulders . |
| 12 | As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! |
| 13 | Salome and Alec were n't doing the Exhilarator for their health , were they ? ’ |
| 14 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 15 | I said we were here doing the caravan , it was n't there then ! |
| 16 | My wife Herta paid her first visit to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 , which was perhaps unfortunate : we were then doing the Hungarian Jews , and at an incredible rate , something like 10,000 a day . |
| 17 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 18 | If I could help him — and , after all , he was only doing the job we paid him to do , was n't he ? — ; then it would be a personal shot at redemption on my part . |
| 19 | Mary O'Dowd [ Head of Year ] was already doing the job quite adequately . |
| 20 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 21 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 22 | And it seems to me that China was just doing the same as St Stalin did . |
| 23 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 24 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
| 25 | no , no , I was just doing the front , he did behind those |
| 26 | When this was not done the judge ordered a receiver to be appointed as an officer of the court in place of the trustees . |
| 27 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 28 | You 're doing what I was always doing the red , the yellow , but try it again . |
| 29 | However , Roel Pieper , chief executive officer of USL , speaking at the AUUG'92 conference in Sydney two weeks ago , was enthusiastically doing the rounds talking to prospective candidates . |
| 30 | This simply means that he felt that he was doing one thing when , in fact , he was really doing the opposite . |