Example sentences of "[was/were] doing it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 2 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 3 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 4 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 5 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 6 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 7 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 9 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 12 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 13 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 14 | I was doing it under the covers you see ? |
| 15 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 16 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |