Example sentences of "be [v-ing] do a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're goin' to do a Victoria and Albert pageant at school on Empire Day , ’ said Ella . |
| 2 | So he 'd say , ‘ I 'd like you to imagine going into a recording studio , you 've never met the band in your life , you 're going to do a session for them and you 're going to be paid very well and they 're all on Acid and they 're playing rockabilly . |
| 3 | That you 're going to do a story about my involvement with Martin ? ’ |
| 4 | Someone said well we 'll just have a generic British paper because , you know , we 're going to do a story about a newspaper office and we need something like a newspaper but is n't actually one . |
| 5 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 6 | Okay we 've only barely started if you take a a fresh piece of paper then , a fresh sheet of paper and and er the orientation that you now know we need to do if we 're going to do if we 're going to do a thought pattern |
| 7 | ‘ We 're going to do a contest for the guests . ’ |
| 8 | They 're going to do a piece on Mum in the local paper-the reporter 's been along already . |
| 9 | ‘ I know it brought tension between Shana and I but if you 're going to do a job properly you have to be prepared to put yourself out . |
| 10 | It 's a great service and I 'm sure we 're going to do a lot of good for a lot of women , ’ says Amanda Ursell , a trained nutritionist on our panel . |
| 11 | We 're going to do a lot for education . |
| 12 | We 're going to cover press releases , a very important way of feeding information into the media generally , and there I 'm glad to say you 're going to do a lot of the work — you 've already been primed to do your homework , I hope you have — and you 're going to do work from group and we 're going to work with you to see whether we can sharpen up some of these press releases . |
| 13 | Erm and all we ask is that if you if you 've said you 're coming to do a session , that you do actually turn up and if you ca n't then if you can telephone us as early as possible to let us know that you ca n't make it , that 's not a problem . |
| 14 | If you 're planning to do a lot of weaving , the weaving arm is a useful extra even if you do have built-in weaving brushes on your machine . |
| 15 | This offers more options and would be worth considering if you are going to do a lot of editing . |
| 16 | ‘ We are not putting out any signals which might make the kidnappers think we are going to do a deal . |
| 17 | ‘ This afternoon four girls are coming to do a horse trek . |
| 18 | I 'm going to do a Terry now when we play on Monday nights . |
| 19 | So first of all I 'm going to do a triangle of mixed and erm and the red foliage compliments it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to do a PhD , ’ he told her , ‘ on the Social and Economic Consequences of the Great Plague of 1347 to 1350 on Rural Parishes in the South of England . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to do a time check . |
| 22 | He told her ‘ I 'm going to do a ballet for you and I will make you or I 'll break you . |
| 23 | When the next round of championship matches start on Thursday , a host of batting and bowling candidates will be hoping to do a spot of last-minute selector-nudging . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm trying to do a job here , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Do you mind , I 'm trying to do a programme here , and how the hell can I do it , with your gob slapping ? |
| 26 | I 'm hoping to do a lot of business with Sam when we get this new programme off the ground . ’ |
| 27 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 28 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 29 | We were going to do a lot more work |
| 30 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |