Example sentences of "[pers pn] were do a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 2 | As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job . |
| 3 | And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ . |
| 4 | We were doing a pre-London tour . |
| 5 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 6 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 7 | as if they were doing a bizarre dance , followed by Marx , Herr Nordern backed through the tiny vestibule , into the sitting-room , and a silent , apprehensive circle of Norderns . |
| 8 | Again it was done live and so , from the cast 's point-of-view , they were expected to learn their lines and movements as if they were doing a conventional four act stage play . |
| 9 | Mr Waldegrave told doctors what they wanted to hear : they were doing a wonderful job and the NHS was not being turned into a tawdry commercial business . |