Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What she was doing among the racing fraternity , I never found out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 21 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 26 | Genuine supporters of civil rights in principle were extremely ill-advised to associate as they were doing with the IRA and Communism . |
| 27 | The Education Department appeared to be delighted with what they were doing with the family , and any materials required for teaching the one girl were supplied eagerly and promptly . |
| 28 | Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 29 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 30 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |