Example sentences of "doing at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not easy to say what the narrating ‘ I ’ is doing at such a scene . |
| 2 | What in the world is a girl of your quality doing at such an inn ? |
| 3 | He wondered what she was doing at that very moment . |
| 4 | he was so carried away with Newley that I believe quite unconsciously , Newley crept into Bowie 's voice and , as you know , he 's been accused of copying Tony Newley , but I do n't think he was really aware of what he was doing at that time . |
| 5 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 6 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 7 | What was Fateha doing at that moment ? ) |
| 8 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 9 | They slipped off so I would n't approach her , which I had no intention of doing at all . ’ |
| 10 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 11 | Two : determine whether the well-done thing was worth doing at all . |
| 12 | There was nothing interesting about what they were doing at all . |
| 13 | The most effective method is that of asking all members of a sample of households to keep diaries , noting what they are doing at all times of the day . |
| 14 | The basics meet with the more complex : avoidance of glitzy analysis and presentation , importance of the denominator , study design , bias , confounding , and inference ; and even ‘ is the study worth doing at all ? ’ |
| 15 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 16 | mm , that was typical mind you I think he needed this win to boost his confidence cos he 's not been doing at all well has he lately ? |
| 17 | But do you find that children really understand what they 're doing at all in any sensible way ? |
| 18 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
| 19 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 20 | There was no variety at all — you knew exactly what you would be doing at any given moment of the week . |
| 21 | It is perhaps remarkable how predictable ( though not exactly inflexible ) the operation of a modern airliner is , even to the extent of it being possible to know within small limits what the pilots will be doing at any particular time . |
| 22 | This is all very limiting for the pilot but it does mean that the investigator is able to know exactly what the pilot is , or should be , doing at any stage in the flight . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 24 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 25 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 26 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 27 | What are you doing at this moment ? ’ we said and , still in mid-conversation , both went into our separate loos . |
| 28 | What would he be doing at this moment ? |
| 29 | She mused , but without real curiosity , on what he might be doing at this very moment to that unknown cadaver , young or old , male or female . |
| 30 | What would you be doing at this moment , if I had n't been there ’ |