Example sentences of "be doing [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 2 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 3 | And we 're doing something on the character of the Christian , er I ca n't , obedience , , righteousness is one and I ca n't remember what the other is . |
| 4 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
| 5 | ‘ I am doing nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 7 | We are doing nothing of the sort . |
| 8 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 9 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 10 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 11 | Well just any time , we wo n't be doing nothing until the end of May anyway . |
| 12 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm doing nothing of the sort . |
| 14 | I do n't think I 'm doing anything over the weekend . |
| 15 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 16 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 17 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 18 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 19 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 20 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 21 | she 's doing everything by the book I think , so |
| 22 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 23 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 24 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 25 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 26 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 27 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the sort ! |
| 28 | ‘ I was doing nothing of the kind , ’ she denied crossly , turning to face him . |
| 29 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |