Example sentences of "he was do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers , he was to do the same to the unbelieving world . |
| 2 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 3 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 4 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ Actually , before the first single came out , he was doing a support act at The Marquee . |
| 5 | He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body . |
| 6 | He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis , not musical work . |
| 7 | He looked the other way , staring at TV aerials as if he was doing a project on them . |
| 8 | And because Jed could n't picture the wife who was supposed to have left him , because he had no idea what she looked like , he found himself believing that he was doing a pretty good job . |
| 9 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 10 | She was a graduate and worked in a record shop ; he was doing a law course . |
| 11 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 12 | I met Pete Waterman first , he was doing a live radio show at a club in Liverpool . |
| 13 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 14 | He was doing a bit of dealing as well . |
| 15 | Maybe he was doing a bit of breaking and entering . ’ |
| 16 | He was trying to , he was doing a laugh laughing fit last night , he was , he , he could n't tell me what he was trying to tell me . |
| 17 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 18 | He was doing a summer season in Blackpool . |
| 19 | Erm , the first time I met him was when he was doing a very tricky stitching job , I took Mollie up |
| 20 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 21 | Jim says that some man he was doing a job for |
| 22 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 23 | Yeah , he was doing a bit of drama this morning was n't he ? |
| 24 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 25 | He was doing the cake judging for us , as he always does , every year . |
| 26 | Now he was doing the job he was trained for , treating real patients . |
| 27 | He hesitated , wondering if he was doing the right thing by telling her . |
| 28 | Stone said nothing for a moment , staring at the CI5 man , perhaps still not sure of whether or not he was doing the right thing . |
| 29 | But they all knew he was doing the right thing in joining the Legion , for her sake as well as his . |
| 30 | Judd said half the fun of being with girls was when he was doing the chasing . |