Example sentences of "were [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant . |
| 2 | One of them was making a basket ; another was drawing ; they were all doing something . |
| 3 | I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing . |
| 4 | They were all doing all right . |
| 5 | We were all doing our own thing . |
| 6 | They were all doing it , everyone , moving time back , at the simple behest of a voice . |
| 7 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 8 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 9 | You 'd , you 'd whole life wondering what they were all doing |
| 10 | Only once we were inside did we appreciate the immense scale of Wolio . |
| 11 | C&P are currently calculating that their cost of non-conformance could be as high as £400m or 10 per cent of turnover — a sum which could , in theory , be added to profitability if the various defective jobs were only done right , first time . |
| 12 | can tell his white brick work , that were only done last year was n't it ? |
| 13 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 14 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 15 | ‘ They were only doing their job , and doing it properly , but when they eventually left me I was shaking with fear . ’ |
| 16 | He claimed that the Ministers who allowed the prosecution of three innocent businessmen to go ahead were only doing their duty . |
| 17 | I see that you were only doing your duty . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 19 | It was nice to be alone with him in Faye and Bill 's room , even though they were only doing the most mundane of jobs — stripping bed linen , dismantling head- and base-boards , and struggling with the big double mattress . |
| 20 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 21 | I could only presume that as this was April they were concerned with spawning and were only doing all the strange things that other species do when pre-occupied with that activity . |
| 22 | You what , well come on we were only doing fifty on the way back |
| 23 | Anyway , six thousand into a standard P E P , now er P E Ps are erm er an instrument which were basically to do with shares , originally and the shares were invested in U K companies , and er the real dividend value of a sh the share , the , the shares have a dividend , and the real value of a P E P is the dividend yield . |
| 24 | One crew would control a real system and the other would think they were so doing but would in fact be in a control room driven by software . |
| 25 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 26 | Meanwhile Pistol Packer was getting into top gear on the stands side , and Caro and Arlequino were not done with . |
| 27 | But Philip , a gentle and even timid soul , would leave if something were not done . |
| 28 | If something drastic were not done , then British politics would drift into class antagonism such as could be observed in France . |
| 29 | If this were not done , the benefit to the released debtor would be nullified by the operation of the indemnity covenant . |
| 30 | If this were not done , data from previous files might still be present in addresses to which records were not allocated . |