Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] doing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |
| 2 | And it is hard not to think of one 's own horror at some of the things that the Irgun and Stern Gang are doing in Palestine , for instance , ’ David said after a long silence . |
| 3 | Find out today what your Accounts Department is doing in terms of cash-flow . |
| 4 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 5 | When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour . |
| 6 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 7 | What would a high-born lady be doing in the wilds of Oxfordshire ? |
| 8 | And there is also concern expressed by lawyers of various kinds about what family law is doing to the ideal of the rule of law . |
| 9 | half way through do we have n't got a clue what the poor girl 's doing at the moment . |
| 10 | Men and women , seated on the open top decks of newfangled motorized omnibuses , had elevated views of what the bright morning sun was doing to the muddy Thames . |
| 11 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 12 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 13 | ‘ Luckily , I realised what my boss was doing to me and I got out quickly . |
| 14 | ‘ He appreciates what others in the team are doing for him , because what I 've done is pick a team around him , ’ explained Taylor . |
| 15 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 16 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 17 | However , the first step must be for us to achieve recognition at the level of official LEA policy that special educational provision begins with what the regular class teacher is doing in the classroom , and that the first responsibility of special needs teachers is to help class teachers meet special needs themselves . |
| 18 | Well , this is certainly what the war is doing to me . |
| 19 | There appears to be some internal debate going on down in Palo Alto about how much damage Sun Microsystems Inc 's recent Sparcstation 10 announcement is doing to its own workstation efforts . |
| 20 | Take some time to bathe in short stories and look particularly at what the author is doing with the characters and the setting . |
| 21 | We need to know exactly what damage a product is doing to the environment — from the mining of its raw materials to the end of its life . |
| 22 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 23 | He peered closer at me and asked what an Englishman was doing in Paris . |
| 24 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 25 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 26 | Directors must know how the organisation is doing against its chosen strategy . |
| 27 | The unwitting star of this video is doing between 85 and 92 mph towing a trailer . |
| 28 | It is bigger than what Frank the Phone is doing to me , whatever that is . |
| 29 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 30 | He must know what their closeness was doing to her , if its effect on him was anything to go by . |