Example sentences of "were do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 2 | Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction . |
| 3 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 4 | If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude . |
| 5 | She just accepted the way things were done in the Army . |
| 6 | Let those things that were done in the dark of night be revealed for your justice and that of the king in the full light of day . ’ |
| 7 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 8 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 9 | All data entry and processing were done in the study headquarters in Navrongo with IBM PS/2 computers and dBase III+ software . |
| 10 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 11 | The activities singled out were to do with the use of ratepayers ' money to promote certain ideas . |
| 12 | As they walked along , weaving through the little groups of fighting or jesting juniors , the three boys were discussing what they were to do over the weekend . |
| 13 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 14 | Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 15 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 16 | The Education Department appeared to be delighted with what they were doing with the family , and any materials required for teaching the one girl were supplied eagerly and promptly . |
| 17 | We could ask further questions — such as , My Lord what you yourself were doing at the banquet on the night Sir Thomas died ? |
| 18 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 19 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 20 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 21 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 22 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 23 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 24 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 25 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 26 | ( Hannah 's work on occupational pensions suggests that employers could seldom conspire , because they seldom had any idea of what they were doing in the area of pension policy . ) |
| 27 | After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby . |
| 28 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |