Example sentences of "was [adv] do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 2 | If I could help him — and , after all , he was only doing the job we paid him to do , was n't he ? — ; then it would be a personal shot at redemption on my part . |
| 3 | Mary O'Dowd [ Head of Year ] was already doing the job quite adequately . |
| 4 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 5 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that China was just doing the same as St Stalin did . |
| 7 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 8 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
| 9 | no , no , I was just doing the front , he did behind those |
| 10 | You 're doing what I was always doing the red , the yellow , but try it again . |
| 11 | However , Roel Pieper , chief executive officer of USL , speaking at the AUUG'92 conference in Sydney two weeks ago , was enthusiastically doing the rounds talking to prospective candidates . |
| 12 | This simply means that he felt that he was doing one thing when , in fact , he was really doing the opposite . |
| 13 | For the hand that had set her scalp alight was now doing the same to her hand . |
| 14 | It was hard doing the roach one handed . |
| 15 | But the money is n't there to do the proper job , it 's a , if the money was there to do the proper job , I 'd say great let's go ahead and do it , but in policy or principle it 's a wonder there 's a lot good things in it , but there is n't the money to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you found the number ? ’ he bawled to the child in the middle of a difficult run , thinking at the same time that the business of Henry 's going to the analyst for him was actually doing the opposite of freeing his friend . |