Example sentences of "be do [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 2 | well it 's true , that 's what they 're doing just the while we 're having our tea |
| 3 | Because they are one of the worst ones if they bought er a Land Rover or any any British make , Oh oh look at the shoddy British , they 're crying they 're up in arms and they 're doing exactly the same thing now . |
| 4 | And we 're doing exactly the same , it 's just the , the first bit is n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 're doing absolutely the right thing , Mrs Lomax , ’ she said gently . |
| 6 | What had she been doing when the killer struck ? |
| 7 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 8 | For many beginners , reaching , turning and often falling is what an afternoon 's windsurfing consists of , which , although it is comforting and fun to be with the dozens of others who are doing exactly the same , does n't lead to much improvement in their sailing . |
| 9 | Plenty of other people , unknown to you , are doing exactly the same . |
| 10 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | Those at low risk are doing just the reverse . |
| 12 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 13 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 14 | If this can be done successfully the company will once again correspond to the profit-maximizing firm of economic theory . |
| 15 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 16 | Many women say cleaning is boring : you do it one day and there it is to be done again the next . |
| 17 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 18 | Cases of unsuitable placements were common , but there was very little to be done once the assignment had gone ahead . |
| 19 | I had a phone call from somebody who was obviously be doing exactly the same thing , and he actually just was booking an appointment to come in and see me . |
| 20 | If Bishop Auckland was where Darlington is I would be doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 21 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 22 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 23 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |
| 24 | CITY workers described last night what they were doing when the blast occurred . |
| 25 | Do you remember what you were doing when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded on April 26 1986 ? |
| 26 | Foreigners used mistakenly to think that British diplomats always knew what they were doing when the truth was they were dimly muddling through . |
| 27 | It was also vital to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe by increasing the level of conventional forces , and yet the British , for all too obvious financial reasons , were doing just the opposite ! |
| 28 | The largest sine ] " Occupational group among the fathers is indeed compositors ( 10 ) and these men 's daughters were doing exactly the same as their sons : following their father into a trade . |
| 29 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 30 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |