Example sentences of "was doing [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 2 | Yeah I was doing their printing for them and er I 've also taken a few shots for the Chronicle . |
| 3 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 4 | I was afraid that I was doing something wrong . |
| 5 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 6 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 7 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 8 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 9 | I , too , thought I was doing something unique and practising an art exceptionally well . |
| 10 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 11 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 12 | I thought I was doing something important , helping Rella along . |
| 13 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 14 | It would seem clear that Paul was doing something of which Jesus himself would have disapproved . |
| 15 | He always made me feel I was doing something wrong . |
| 16 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 17 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
| 18 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 19 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 20 | I gave my every waking hour to that club unless I was doing something else . |
| 21 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 22 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 23 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 24 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 25 | As the months passed , it became clear to me , however , that he was doing something else as well . ’ |
| 26 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 27 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 28 | ‘ Aye , that 's a pre-requisite , ’ said Doogie , who was doing something unspeakable to a metal coat-hanger . |
| 29 | I sneaked into the main dealing room and found a heating vent near the skirting-board at one end which I could unscrew and look as if I was doing something professional . |
| 30 | God help her , she was doing something very foolish , but she could n't walk away . |