Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] do that " in BNC.

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1 I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of .
2 We were n't elected to do that .
3 Er , your own line in , I thought you were n't allowed to do that ?
4 I suppose it was because we would have had to talk about it then , and you 'd already decided you were n't going to do that .
5 Yeah I was just I was just trying to do that
6 Gradually Grégoire seemed to relax : he explained that he was allowed to help the stableboys sometimes ; he would have liked to ride , too , but of course he was not allowed to do that .
7 I was n't meant to do that .
8 He hoped Donald was n't going to do that .
9 There was n't anything she could do about it , though , except back away , and she certainly was n't going to do that !
10 If she did that , she would be admitting that he still had the power to affect her , and she was n't going to do that !
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