Example sentences of "[pers pn] be do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Also , I used to be an up-market wino and after nine months ’ sobriety , I realise what I 'm doing at present is not very fulfilling . |
| 2 | I do n't think of what I 'm doing as gender specific . |
| 3 | And I know I 'm doing less harm to the atmosphere than the other drivers with their petrol engines . ’ |
| 4 | For an article I was doing on telephone sex . ’ |
| 5 | I think it 's more to the point cos what I was doing at Christmas was n't really exploring the attitudes as I wanted |
| 6 | The letter said that the work I was doing with barn owls was very worthwhile and deserving , and the Trust wished to publicise it further with my permission . |
| 7 | He says , all I was doing in Totem and Taboo , was trying to explain Totemism , a very specific form of religion . |
| 8 | As long as you are doing to number two something appropriate as effective by what you have decided to do . |
| 9 | the work that you 're doing at school . |
| 10 | because then you can get , I can hear you two talking , and see what you 're doing during sport , great idea , should try that . |
| 11 | So what you 're doing for prep this weekend is very exam . |
| 12 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 13 | ‘ What I still do n't know is what you were doing on board my boat . ’ |
| 14 | First of all , this feedback , on what you were doing before coffee , and secondly talk about some of those markers and the speakers that been brought to my attention talked about with the other group , but not you . |
| 15 | She was done with crying . |
| 16 | Like the one she said she was doing on drug smuggling . ’ |
| 17 | What we are doing in care management is not greatly different from what we do in children 's services — working with limited resources and with other agencies , ’ says Mills . |
| 18 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 19 | I mean you know some people will be particularly interested to read about what we 're doing with CAD . |
| 20 | For example , if you take what we 're doing with CD ROM software or in the consumer areas , other [ computer ] companies are n't very involved yet . |
| 21 | Modelling we 're doing at school . |
| 22 | We need to remind children that what we 're doing in drama is pretending . |
| 23 | So in a sense , what we 're doing by funding and delivering a very high capital programme out of revenue , rather than borrowing , is we 're detracting from our ability to deliver important services . |
| 24 | But we were doing on average about fourteen thousand sixteen thousand each year . |
| 25 | So what we were doing of course is we were moving in taking her half of the stuff and moving it out . |
| 26 | But it really did n't affect a lot of the traditional things that we were doing in knitwear . |
| 27 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 28 | It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action . |
| 29 | Perhaps what they are doing at present is coming together on issues that are essentially unproblematic and secure whilst leaving the deep differences untouched . |
| 30 | The statistical approach follows on from the Lorenz curve type information but recognizes that , for example , studying the income share of the bottom 10 per cent does not indicate how they are doing in relation to the mean or median of the distribution . |