Example sentences of "were doing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 2 | Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 3 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 4 | The Education Department appeared to be delighted with what they were doing with the family , and any materials required for teaching the one girl were supplied eagerly and promptly . |
| 5 | Genuine supporters of civil rights in principle were extremely ill-advised to associate as they were doing with the IRA and Communism . |
| 6 | We could ask further questions — such as , My Lord what you yourself were doing at the banquet on the night Sir Thomas died ? |
| 7 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 8 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 9 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 10 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 11 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 12 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 13 | And I hated the anglers with their sharp hooks and their lack of understanding of what they were doing to the fish they plucked so gleefully from their wet world into our dry one . |
| 14 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 15 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 16 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 17 | ( Hannah 's work on occupational pensions suggests that employers could seldom conspire , because they seldom had any idea of what they were doing in the area of pension policy . ) |
| 18 | After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby . |
| 19 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |