Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I was doing some commentary on our clubcall line and when we equalised , considered analysis went out of the window . |
| 9 | Neighbour Kathy Burn said : ‘ We heard a bang and thought someone was doing some DIY work . |
| 10 | You 'd think they would n't want to be seen in public ; but no , there they are , living it up , and my own daughter aiding and abetting them as if she were doing some thing clever . |
| 11 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 12 | There is no need to invent imaginary names : in fact , if you were doing this report as an assignment , you could put your tutor 's name opposite the ‘ To ’ . |
| 13 | I said I can imagine if you were doing this project yeah , like they 'd like get this tape yeah of you and Honey having |
| 14 | I know just now when I came in just now you were doing some housework . |
| 15 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 16 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
| 17 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
| 18 | Nothing very brilliant had come to her , though , until , not thinking of her problem in so much depth , she was doing some washing-up when she thought of Rosemary and , suddenly , of how Rosemary was renting her flat . |
| 19 | think , think you are too mum , you , you could have a son who is taking drugs , who was doing all sorts of in crime and joyriding |
| 20 | Well while we were doing that mummy was being all these clothes ready for her birthday . |
| 21 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 22 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
| 23 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 24 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 25 | And erm when we were doing these cards Mrs , that 's Scott 's old teacher , she 's very nice , very modern |
| 26 | We 've got to do er , we were doing these Mother 's Day cards and she said , oh we 've got to ta , the curriculum has changed now |
| 27 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 28 | Well that fail sign was n't on the caravan when we was doing that axle underneath . |
| 29 | We was doing this thing . |
| 30 | Under the circumstances it was almost unbelievable that there were do few problems given the fact that ticket holders could see so little of the action . |