Example sentences of "[be] do a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 2 | So you 're doing a bit of detective work here , what must be happening in this ? |
| 3 | They 're doing a story on Jean-Claude — I should have asked you . |
| 4 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 5 | erm you 're doing a perhaps you 're doing a histogram of some jobs that you 've been doing , |
| 6 | And if we 're doing a bunch of dates in the same venue , it gets to sound better and better each night . |
| 7 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're doing a movie about industry . |
| 9 | And there 's and erm we 're doing a project on conservation and actually helping the conservation as well and erm as well cos so them up and it 's and it 's gey good for our own project . |
| 10 | Cos we 're doing a project on water |
| 11 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 12 | They 're doing a , I 've got a piece of paper somewhere with it all written on , I 'll show you , they 're doing a piece of research with a company that does dictionaries and a university , to put together a load of modern usage . |
| 13 | And if you 've got the same file names , and you 're doing a copy in DOS , you just overwrite them , and you overwrite the ninety four file with ninety three file there . |
| 14 | Well we 're doing a number of things . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose you 're doing a lot of training , sir . ’ |
| 16 | Our half year results demonstrate that we 're doing a lot of the right things to get there . |
| 17 | He says we 're doing a lot of good for the village … we 're determined to win . |
| 18 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 19 | They 're doing a lot of advertising of |
| 20 | We are absolutely clear on that , it came over quite clearly from heads , the previous policy of increasing class sizes and therefore not spending any more money but claiming we 're doing a lot for nursery education , the previous policy erm was not one which they wanted to support . |
| 21 | But it annoys you they they they think they 're doing a lot for her 'cos they go in ev every morning . |
| 22 | But if you , if we 're doing a rockumentary about the whole got to cover for whole , whole scene . |
| 23 | Now what if it 's Re we 're doing a job for Regional Railways ? |
| 24 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |
| 25 | At present I am doing a course at the local college and I recommend this to anyone . |
| 26 | It 's only a small job here but I feel I am doing a service to the public . ’ |
| 27 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 28 | The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year , she said . |
| 29 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 30 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |