Example sentences of "doing and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band are intelligent boys , they know what they are doing and we let them get on with it . |
| 2 | ‘ There are informal networks through which we let one another know what we are doing and we meet and talk . |
| 3 | The first time I was too young to know what I was doing and we split up after only seven months . |
| 4 | According to their ever-so convincing press release ‘ They know what they 're doing and they use loops , breaks and samples the way other people breathe . |
| 5 | she had no business to do it , she knew what she were doing and they had no business to do it . |
| 6 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
| 7 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 8 | Once it becomes an end in itself then it becomes worth doing and it becomes a profession in itself just as being a dancer is a profession . |
| 9 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |
| 10 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
| 11 | Because it 's something I 'm doing and I 've just recorded all our conversation here |
| 12 | Obviously somebody knew what they were doing and I imagine Toby was taken away for racing or stud , ’ said Mr McKillen . |
| 13 | Of his talk with Mr Yeltsin , Mr Clinton said : ‘ We just talked about what he was doing and I said I supported democracy and free-market economics in Russia . ’ |
| 14 | One of my best-known remarks was when I was Chancellor and Geoffrey Howe was my opponent , and he made a rather damaging criticism of what I was doing and I did n't want to spend time on that . |
| 15 | I do n't know what they were doing and I guess that could be called an orgy . |
| 16 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 17 | That is what I 've been doing and I have had some marvellous views of them . ’ |
| 18 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 19 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 20 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 21 | Mind you , once you get to the know the typewriter and that I mean you know what you 're doing and you 've done your R S A one . |
| 22 | Mr Lynch , who was described as the instigator of the deal , was told : ‘ You knew full well what you were doing and you relished the consternation and damage being caused . ’ |
| 23 | We hated what our mother was doing and you knew ! " |
| 24 | But before you can use the calculator , you need to understand what you 're doing and you say , My calculator 's got the cube root on it . |
| 25 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 26 | Of course he ca n't do the job that he was doing and he 'd got potential of the future with , you understand what I mean ? |
| 27 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 28 | He did all the things we know he is capable of doing and he behaved himself as well . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it . |
| 30 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |