Example sentences of "were doing [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | We could ask further questions — such as , My Lord what you yourself were doing at the banquet on the night Sir Thomas died ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 10 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And that one we were doing in the meantime . |
| 13 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |