Example sentences of "[pron] [be] doing [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 2 | But erm I need to get some rope cos I 'm doing , finally I 'm doing that act for my cousin 's birthday who 's nearly two |
| 3 | I 'm doing that computer course in the spring . |
| 4 | Yeah , well I think I 'm down this weekend cos I do n't know what I 'm doing this weekend . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm doing this deb thing because of my mother , really , ’ she said , fiddling apologetically with the buttons of her emerald green suit . |
| 6 | Yeah , but I 'm finding this I 'm doing this patterns thing and it 's all about transformations and that , and I , and there 's so much gobbledegook with it that I 'm I 'm ge I 'm getting lost my mind is getting lost in the gobbledegook Cos I know what |
| 7 | Not now , no , we 're having dinner and I 'm doing this bingo for a minute look bring your |
| 8 | This is not for er any sort of This i I 'm doing this talk here for erm Stanley 's daughter who 's at er college , and she likes to hear the sound of my voice when I 'm sober . |
| 9 | After all , one of the reasons that I 'm doing this job is that I 'm plugged into what 's going on out there . |
| 10 | Can you keep an eye on him while I 'm doing this dinner please ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm doing some work on optical lenses with a high refractive index and I seem to have got some … er … thallium on my sandwiches … ’ |
| 12 | I 'm working at the big hospital in Port au Prince , and I 'm doing some work for my book . ’ |
| 13 | Shh shh I 'm doing some listening now . |
| 14 | I 'm doing some listening over here . |
| 15 | Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before . |
| 16 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 17 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 18 | I think if one looks at life and says : ‘ If I was doing that job , what are the conditions I would like to work in ? ’ , and then put them into operation , people will probably think it 's about right . |
| 19 | Er well I was doing all kinds really there was a staff then and of servants but I was lo I was er looking after the old lady more than anything . |
| 20 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 21 | So I went back into the spare room , I was doing some ironing which was on the you know and the next minute the phone went ! |
| 22 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I was doing some commentary on our clubcall line and when we equalised , considered analysis went out of the window . |
| 24 | Neighbour Kathy Burn said : ‘ We heard a bang and thought someone was doing some DIY work . |
| 25 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 26 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 27 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 28 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 30 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |