Example sentences of "[pers pn] be doing a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm off to the US next week and then I am doing an extended tour of the US and Canada . |
| 3 | they 've got a children 's hospital there and I 'm doing a paediatric health course for a month . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm doing a mental count of the number of wool packs we have in the shed . |
| 5 | I ca n't say I 'm doing a Page-type thing in the studio , but he was someone who was able to make very soulful records , and that was something that generated excitement in me at the time . |
| 6 | At times like that I feel I 'm doing a good job . |
| 7 | Unless people are free to say ‘ I do n't think it 's good enough ’ , ‘ I do n't feel as if I 'm doing a good enough job ’ , and ‘ I do n't have a clear idea of how to do it better ’ , teacher-generated and teacher-appropriated change will not happen . |
| 8 | If I 'm doing a classical play she ca n't go on , but she 's good with the commoner stuff . |
| 9 | If , if you get it if you get it everyone has it I think I 'm doing a little bit what we did last night Excuse me . |
| 10 | I 'm doing a secretarial course and want to get in that way . |
| 11 | Yeah , I 'm doing a local project . |
| 12 | You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing . |
| 13 | I can usually tell by when I when I 'm doing a fact-find reply obviously you find out whether their erm position is , is erm simply building society or national savings investment , or whether they 've gone into shares or unit trusts or investment trusts , and you can see at what level they 're operating and of course if they 've still got their money under the bed , then |
| 14 | I 'm doing an elective attachment at the District Hospital . |
| 15 | I 'm doing an open learning course in Communication 4 at the moment , which may help . |
| 16 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 17 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 18 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 19 | I thought I was doing a good enough job against Southampton to stay on . |
| 20 | Last year we were going to er a show at er and I was doing a modern arrangement and er , we were in Norman 's van . |
| 21 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 22 | Your first charts will not be final or perfect , but these early charts are very useful steps towards an accurate pronunciation ( and also , of course , necessary if you are doing a phonemic analysis ) . |
| 23 | But from what I can gather from his scrawls you 're doing a good job . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're doing a good job . ’ |
| 25 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 26 | But but no , you used to think they 're doing , you 're doing a good service are n't you ? |
| 27 | Oh you 're doing a good job there John . |
| 28 | you 're doing a good job here are n't you ? |
| 29 | So that , can you could give me two , please , give me a literal translation and then an idiomatic one , as if you 're doing a modern bible . |
| 30 | Mm , so they 're , you 're doing a present value expression . |