Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 2 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 3 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 4 | I could n't square what I was doing with the view of the world I have tried to transmit to my pubescent son : sex is a wonderful thing but it should be part of a loving relationship . |
| 5 | Well it there was n't a recipe to cover just what I was doing with the |
| 6 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 7 | Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington . |
| 8 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 9 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Furthermore , there was an insufficient degree of regularity to make the purchase of the car by the plaintiffs something which was done in the course of their business . |
| 11 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 12 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 13 | After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby . |
| 14 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 15 | What she was doing among the racing fraternity , I never found out . |
| 16 | He was about to ask her what in the world she was doing in the East End when he was reproached by an angry Sally-Anne . |
| 17 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 18 | ‘ If the Americans ever find out what we were doing at the Jenner Clinic , ’ Hennessy told him gloomily , ‘ I wo n't even make it that far . ’ |
| 19 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 22 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 23 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 24 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 25 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 26 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |
| 27 | ‘ No , everything was done in the studio . ’ |
| 28 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 29 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 30 | As they walked along , weaving through the little groups of fighting or jesting juniors , the three boys were discussing what they were to do over the weekend . |