Example sentences of "[was/were] do [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 2 | With regard to a carbon tax he said at Energy Questions on Monday that if that ’ were done unilaterally ahead of the rest of the world , it could put British industry at a severe disadvantage . ’ |
| 3 | If they were determined to hang on to their culture then they were to do so quietly , without bothering others . |
| 4 | For the record this shirt looks uncomfortably like those worn around my area when Oxford were doing particularly well . |
| 5 | In the sixties , polls showed that , even if they believed that they themselves were doing rather well , most British people felt that their country was doing rather badly , and falling further behind foreign competitors . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought unit trusts were doing rather badly , ’ Charles tried maliciously , but Miles was unruffled . |
| 7 | By comparison with other European empires overseas , the English could feel they were doing well enough . |
| 8 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 9 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 10 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 11 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 12 | But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are . |
| 13 | There were perhaps too few such women in this social cross-section of the immediate post-war generation ( 3 per cent of the age group , 40 cases in the pay regression ) for us to draw such conclusions , but similar analyses of a contemporary survey of graduates ( Dolton and Makepeace , 1986 ) also indicates that male graduates in their early thirties were doing considerably better than women . |
| 14 | Not that the Rattries were doing much better , three of the youngest — Cara did not know which — having died the week before of measles , Sairellen Thackray thought , or some such childish ailment involving a rash and a cough . |
| 15 | When an inquiry was carried out , it was discovered that the regiments that had the most influence , either through royal or noble connections , were doing much better in respect of ammunition and supplies than some others . |
| 16 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 17 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 18 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 19 | They were doing very well indeed . |
| 20 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 21 | The Globe and the Lord Chamberlain 's Men were doing very well , and the older actors in the company were making money , and buying houses and land . |
| 22 | He reached for a half loaf of bread with both hands and said , by the six hairs of his grandmother 's beard , they were doing very well out of all this . |
| 23 | And I were doing very well . |
| 24 | There were marvellous areas of growth , like Caribbean cruising with the fantastic prices and quality incidental to the impact of all the extra tonnage , and the ferries were doing so well that it would be a good idea to discourage people from turning up in hordes at Dover unticketed . |
| 25 | And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing ! |
| 26 | But we were doing so well . |
| 27 | None were doing so then . |
| 28 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 29 | Kievs were doing all right . |
| 30 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |