Example sentences of "[that] they were doing [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 2 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 3 | But er I his lieutenants were there and I 'm sure he looked to see that they were doing their job properly . |
| 4 | And I was aware that they were doing something with my fire . |
| 5 | Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case . |
| 6 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 7 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 8 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 9 | However , the appellants ' case in respect of that matter is that they simply did not realise that they were doing anything wrong . |