Example sentences of "were do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 2 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 3 | were doing the first |
| 4 | But what you doing we you were doing the other thing on that . |
| 5 | Thought we were doing the other side . |
| 6 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 7 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 8 | off with when we were doing the nice simple stuff with positive whole numbers for indexes . |
| 9 | Needless to say , both approaches made life difficult for the officials who were doing the actual negotiating . |
| 10 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 11 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 12 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 13 | ‘ You thought that you were doing the right thing . |
| 14 | Curator Andy Saunders commented that the Museum had been ‘ agonising after they had gone into the sale ’ if they were doing the right thing with WA984 and E-412 . |
| 15 | And thought we were doing the best possible thing we could do . |
| 16 | Then , in August 1928 , Arsenal took the field at Hillsborough wearing numbers on their backs , while on the same day , Chelsea , at home , were doing the same — at Chapman 's suggestion . |
| 17 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 18 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 19 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 20 | Jehan nodded , and he saw that others in the room were doing the same . |
| 21 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 22 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
| 24 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 25 | The others were doing the same jobs they had during peacetime : baker , steward , purser , electrician , storekeeper . |
| 26 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 27 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |
| 28 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 29 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |