Example sentences of "[pers pn] doing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 2 | Am I doing that ? |
| 3 | Why am I doing all this ? |
| 4 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 5 | Why was I doing this to them ? |
| 6 | Why was I doing this ? |
| 7 | Other times I think , ‘ What am I doing this for , I could be sitting at home with my feet up . ’ |
| 8 | As Dorothy Parry has pointed out , in the Journal of Occupational Therapy : ‘ … the one disastrous method is to take suggestions such as these and to apply them solemnly and over-earnestly ( am I doing this right ? |
| 9 | None the less the opposite argument is equally shaky ; it would be frightening to imagine teachers embarking on the planning of a term 's work or even one single-period unit without asking themselves the simplest questions : " Why am I doing this ? |
| 10 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 11 | Why am I doing this ? he wondered . |
| 12 | Why am I doing this ? |
| 13 | Why am I doing this ? |
| 14 | ‘ Am I doing this right ? ’ asked Twoflower anxiously . |
| 15 | Ruth Barr 's research alias ‘ personal time-and-motion study ’ described in answering her own ‘ why am I doing this ? ’ question would seem to meet these criteria . |
| 16 | ‘ Why am I doing this ? ’ |
| 17 | No doubt sometime in the near future , mid-way through another topic , I will be once again saying — ‘ Why am I doing this ? ’ |
| 18 | But just why am I doing this ? she wondered . |
| 19 | ‘ For a week or two after Barcelona , I thought why am I doing this ? ’ he said . |
| 20 | what the fuck am I doing this |
| 21 | What am I doing wrong ? |
| 22 | I always water with rain water , what am I doing wrong ? |
| 23 | What am I doing wrong ? |
| 24 | You need to have another go maybe sometimes think well what am I doing wrong . |
| 25 | What am I doing wrong ? |
| 26 | What am I doing wrong ? |
| 27 | And if you said , well I can only I can only achieve seventy-five percent of what was in my plan one week , then you say well , what was I doing wrong ? |
| 28 | That 's why you need somebody you can ring up and say look , we did this yesterday what am I doing wrong today ? |
| 29 | She sighed ; what the hell was she doing trying to speculate what went on behind that good-looking façade ? |
| 30 | So , if she was supposed to be his girlfriend , what was she doing staying home nights ? |