Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] doing [pron] [prep] " 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 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 5 | So in some way I must have passed on my fear to my children , even though I thought I was doing everything in my power to avoid doing so . |
| 6 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 7 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 10 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 11 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 14 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 15 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 16 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 17 | You were doing it to me . |
| 18 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 19 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |
| 21 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 22 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 23 | she was doing it to Matt like that ! |
| 24 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 25 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 26 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |
| 27 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 28 | She never would say why but I felt almost sure she was doing it against him , either to spite him or to gain his attention . |
| 29 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 30 | The worst one was when we were doing one on Women 's Studies and I said look , let's have your title and let's have some kind of format . |