Example sentences of "what [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Trying to get a little love on the subject , that 's what I was doing on ‘ Ragged Glory ’ , exploring this neighbourhood that 's like a valley or something . |
| 2 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 3 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 4 | So that fits in quite well I could n't remember what I was doing on Monday but we said , sort of tentatively Monday would be probably quite a good day I think . |
| 5 | which is what I was relying on it |
| 6 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 7 | I was also diverted , watching the film on video , by what she was writing on her official papers . |
| 8 | However , she hid what she was feeling on the subject , and asked the simple question , ‘ How ? ’ |
| 9 | It was not till nine days ago that at last I found her , and saw what she was doing on her isle . ’ |
| 10 | Did she mention what she was doing on that road on her own ? ’ |
| 11 | I wanted to know what she was doing on Phraxos , where she came from , the reality behind all the mystery . |
| 12 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |
| 13 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 14 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 15 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 16 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 17 | People kept asking him what he was doing on Uist ; Lewis was further north , ha ha . |
| 18 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 19 | Firwood Bootle 's skipper Ian Cockbain knew what he was doing on a soft unpredictable Aigburth pitch when he declared at what seemed an easy target at Liverpool . |
| 20 | The physical demands of the play meant that he had to drink three pints of water off stage during each performance to make up for what he was losing on stage . |