Example sentences of "[be] do [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 2 | You know you do n't need to tell us and in fact what you should be doing is in fact trying to develop relationships with your local papers and we actually have a very good relationships in Cambridge with our local council whereby it 's not just a matter of , of contacting people during office hours . |
| 3 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 4 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 5 | It was , in fact , just a peculiarly rich and extended example , and the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 6 | And the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |