Example sentences of "he [was/were] doing [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 2 | He did n't even look up , he was doing something with the cafetière . |
| 3 | I know Mr used to go up there cos he was still at school then and he used to go up there cos he was doing nothing but whether he he wants her to get a job , well he . |
| 4 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 5 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 6 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 7 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 8 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 13 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 15 | He was doing it with Michael Treacher , who is now teaching government somewhere in Canada . |
| 16 | He was doing it on purpose . |
| 17 | Sam had been using tape echo , or slap-back , and whether he was doing it on purpose or not , he also treated Elvis 's voice like another instrument . |
| 18 | He was doing it against me . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |