Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 2 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 3 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 4 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 5 | We were like , these geeks from Oldham who were doing psychedelic stuff . |
| 6 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 7 | I much prefer the stuff they are doing these days . ’ |
| 8 | I mean they really think I mean it 's like Lee he 's doing this work experience an yes it 's great an it 's a bit boring , mum and Dave said Lee , you know wake up ! |
| 9 | Those people I 'm do some revision okay ? |
| 10 | Because I I wondered wha to what extent those those links were in that I shall have obviously informal links an and talks with other people who are doing similar things than what |
| 11 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 12 | Erm it may be that the people who were right down at the bottom like that were people who were doing other things as well and were say blacksmiths or whatever |
| 13 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 14 | ‘ For a new show I 'm doing called Rex Mundi 's Big Night Out . |
| 15 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 16 | I bang my head , I cut my scalp , yeah , everybody , I bang my head , I cut my scalp , not massive bleeding none of the bandages we 're doing this morning are to do with massive bleeding , they 're all to do with what we call minor wounds , right so small cut , but it needs attention , okay , so I cut my scalp |
| 17 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 18 | In the meantime I 'm doing Open University courses at home . |
| 19 | Today he 's hitched a ride in a Wessex helicopter with a group of soldiers who are doing random vehicle checks . |
| 20 | You might get a backlash you might find that the rest of the citizens of this county want to know , want to know what on earth you 're doing pouring money into this area when the rest of the county gets nothing . |
| 21 | Now I am in year eleven and I have the main female role in a production we are doing next year , and rehearsals for next year 's school play are in full swing . |
| 22 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |