Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] doing [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 2 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |
| 3 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the kind , ’ she denied crossly , turning to face him . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 6 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 8 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 9 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 10 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 11 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 12 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 13 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 14 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 15 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 16 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 17 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 18 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 20 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 21 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |