Example sentences of "[was/were] do [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biochemical analysis and titration studies were done withoutknowledge of the diagnosis . |
| 2 | They were doing battle on the pitch rather than swapping banter in the columns of their alternative programmes . |
| 3 | Father Anstruther , the former vicar who lived rather too near , was to do duty for the time of Mark 's absence — not an entirely satisfactory arrangement but the best that could be made . |
| 4 | In a report of an International conference on Frontiers in Education , it was announced that Mr Michael Macdonald-Ross of the Open University was doing research into the efficacy of the printed word : " a field where very little research had been done . " |
| 5 | erm no , I was doing research in the States . |
| 6 | But Shelley was concentrating on the mystery of the drug cupboard , and wondering what old Abuelo Freitas was doing sitting in the village street all night . |
| 7 | He was given no chance to escape , would say nothing at all as to what he was doing living in the graveyard and was locked in a cell at the police-station . |