Example sentences of "[was/were] doing in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And that one we were doing in the meantime .
2 Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries .
3 ( 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 . )
4 Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ?
5 The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter .
6 Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard .
7 For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up .
8 Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington .
9 Do you know what he was doing in the car ?
10 The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area .
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