Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] doing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men and women , seated on the open top decks of newfangled motorized omnibuses , had elevated views of what the bright morning sun was doing to the muddy Thames . |
| 2 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 3 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 4 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 5 | Tobie spared a thought for Cairo , and Mamelukes , and Tzani-bey , and wondered if Nicholas knew what the emir was doing in the Mameluke camp outside Famagusta . |
| 6 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 7 | As a child he had studied them with fascination , enquiring what the bull was doing to the lady , and receiving from his parents no very satisfying answer . |
| 8 | So with our legs and bottoms already aching from the lack of space and the hard seats , we read about the party someone had given in Christ Church , or how well so-and-so was doing at the Ministry of Information , or what little Nicolette had said to her grandmother . |