Example sentences of "[noun] [be] doing a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warner Brothers said PWL stepped into the breach and were putting together the songs for the movie , including using several old 50 ’ s classics by Little Richard , Eddie Cochran and all , while Kylie was doing a cover version of ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , by Little Anthony and the Imperials , and looking for a Christmas Number One . |
| 2 | Er why did , what do you mean Bedlam was doing a rave at |
| 3 | Rafiq was doing a lot of waving into the darkness , as if he expected something to appear — a deputation from the Noise Abatement Society , thought Robert , if they all carried on like this for much longer . |
| 4 | Jane said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel to ‘ T is ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | Windows 3.1 is £99 a copy , OS/2 2.0 is £157 , but IBM is doing a promotion price of £90 . |
| 7 | Patients will have no way of telling whether the waiting list is a reflection of high quality and status , or that the consultant is doing a lot of outside non-NHS work . |
| 8 | The robots were doing a lot of turning people back , and the guard-manned point was thronged with a wedge-shaped queue of complaining travellers . |
| 9 | I only hope Lynda La Plante is doing a sequel . |
| 10 | ‘ A few years ago one of the old boys from Ham was doing a bit of rabbit poaching up here and a headless horseman went riding by as cool as you please . |
| 11 | In the foreground part of an oven is being excavated , while behind a draughts-person is doing a scale plan of part of the site . |
| 12 | They played all sorts of tricks while they were learning and then when they came upstairs Victor was doing an exhibition dance , a tango . |
| 13 | One man was lying on his back and cycling with his legs , rather like Badger , while a figure that Robert recognized as Aziz 's friend from the Frog and Ferret was doing a lot of semaphore work with both arms . |
| 14 | The other was doing a BTEC first diploma at Newcastle college . |
| 15 | Young people are doing a lot in our diocese , so let's hear from you . |
| 16 | Well Maureen 's doing a bit of catering now |
| 17 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 18 | Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker . |
| 19 | Sources claim Samsung is the company Hewlett-Packard CEO John Young was referring to when he told Wall Street analysts that one of his PA RISC partners was doing a port to SVR4 ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 20 | I thought Rob is doing a sort of recycling what do you call it composium |
| 21 | As the secretary 's doing a lot of postal work Helen to keep the petty cash tin and present present the book at each meeting for inspection . |
| 22 | Rather than converting Windows applications for Unix in the current fashion , nQue is doing a version for Unix that will run atop Windows . |
| 23 | My daughter 's doing a media degree actually , and she just brought er , one of those things home with her period is one of her fieldwork , as part of her fieldwork is to interview people , is that what your background is ? |
| 24 | The government is doing a lot about the smoking issue . |
| 25 | I do n't have any distinct views , but my local church is doing a petition about South Africa . |
| 26 | Peter was doing a thing about counting words . |
| 27 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 28 | Then , over-confident , he tried a late cut : there was a click , a squeal of joy , and first slip was doing a war-dance . |
| 29 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 30 | ‘ We had 22 teachers in here last week watching the same rehearsal because their children are doing a project on it and as a result of that we have had 260 kids watching the rehearsal this week . |