Example sentences of "were doing [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ See here m'am , you were doing well over the fifty-five mandatory . |
| 2 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 3 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 4 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 5 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
| 6 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
| 7 | Many of the American psychiatrists who were doing much of the important pioneering empirical work on dreaming during the 1960s were deeply influenced by psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | He screwed his eyes tightly shut and tried not to imagine what they were doing together in the room with the shuttered window . |
| 9 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 10 | The fundamental problem faced by US business was that rivals in Europe and Japan were accumulating capital at a far faster rate ( figure 10.4 ) and were doing so on the basis of far lower wage costs ( table 10.5 ) . |
| 11 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |