Example sentences of "were do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 2 | Dog waited till we were done , then jumped off . |
| 3 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 4 | At home he has chewed the door frame and part of the back door , as well as the kitchen cupboards , although these were done when he was a lot younger . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 6 | The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once . |
| 7 | Before Asian women began working in large numbers , their jobs were done by Asian men or white women . |
| 8 | Before Asian immigrants came to Britain , these jobs were done by previous waves of immigrants in certain areas ( like the East End of London ) . |
| 9 | The things that were done , the dead … strange is n't it , all those Germans killed by the Russians , Germans killed by Germans . |
| 10 | ‘ How they were done I can not imagine … ‘ |
| 11 | Two weeks later , the changes I wanted for the animals — shade , water , things like that — were done . |
| 12 | Only the top layers were done , as the contrast with the darker layers underneath added depth to the overall appearance . |
| 13 | All the things were designed by Natasha Kornilof or another woman called Anne Proctor , and maybe she 'd make the introduction and David would meet them , but then she would follow it through and make sure the arrangements were done and the house was kept great when they lived in Oakley Street . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 15 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 16 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 17 | Perhaps the enormity of the facts and figures reaching his desk enabled him to overcome , for the first time , the old Marxists who were already resisting his attempts to change the way things were done . |
| 18 | All things were done differently in London . |
| 19 | Though some of the writing and most if not all the compilation were done not so long after the notorious events surrounding the capture of Jerusalem in 587 or 586 , only in the little story of the bowl of lentil soup is Esau portrayed in a poor light . |
| 20 | All the victims — Mr Salmon , Mr Kinnock and Mr Major — were done to a T , with chopped peppers and barbecued sauce , by the time Walden had finished with them . |
| 21 | The recent calculations were done only for the collision of an electron and a positron , a collision common in particle accelerators . |
| 22 | Because they continued to be economically independent , these working older people , both men and women , were often remembered as strong characters , like the Lancashire shopkeeping grandmother , a ‘ powerful personality ’ who was without any doubt ‘ boss of the concern ’ , or the old North Welsh woman who ‘ was doing all the cobbling for the neighbours in Berthengam , and … they were done by her well . ’ |
| 23 | Oddly enough , all the shots were done when Kevin was still an assistant . |
| 24 | She forecast that if nothing were done , violence would erupt . |
| 25 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 26 | If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude . |
| 27 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 28 | When the jobs were done , I switched off my torch and lay on my back listening to a gerbil skidding up and down the tent under the fly-sheet . |
| 29 | oh , but for such Columbia 's days were done … , |
| 30 | During the forty minutes travelling through the shop , all repairs were done to draw , buffing , and brake gear , steam and brake pipe work etc . |