Example sentences of "be doing [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what we 're doing is collecting like the |
| 2 | All you 're doing is putting off the evil hour . ’ |
| 3 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 4 | for that , I mean , all you 're doing is going on a ferry |
| 5 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 6 | All they 're doing is asking for something to eat , but it can be quite painful |
| 7 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 8 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 9 | The prince said there was a lack of strategic thinking to tackle the problems and he added : ‘ I think what we are doing is tinkering with the problem , which is a structural one . |
| 10 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 11 | So what the pollen cells are doing are investing in mating success . |
| 12 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 13 | ‘ To me , the whole starting issue is a red herring what we should be doing is looking at bringing the control of racing into the 20th century . ’ |
| 14 | So essentially , what we 're going to be doing are going through er the lessons that are actually outlined in page eight and page nine of your booklet . |
| 15 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 16 | All they were doing was waiting for their Dad . |
| 17 | ‘ All the Government is doing is bowing to back-bench pressure . |
| 18 | If the teacher does not evaluate what children do , how can he determine if what he is doing is contributing to or hampering their growth in art . |
| 19 | Well he 's not , he 's not forced to do , he just might know the area , I mean , all he 's doing is sticking to er places just off the motorways int he ? |
| 20 | All all it 's doing is staying on the outside dear . |
| 21 | all he was doing was listening at first and I thought oh no it 's so long |