Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] [verb] something [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 2 | I was afraid that I was doing something wrong . |
| 3 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 4 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
| 5 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
| 6 | For whatever reason , she is not here ; I am sure that she is doing something important . |
| 7 | Sometimes the fact that you are doing something concrete to help someone with whom you can empathise can help you to forget your own personal misgivings . |
| 8 | Good that we 're doing something good in sport , is n't it ? |
| 9 | So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’ |
| 10 | Wealth can make life easier , but the things that really make us happy , like friendship , love and the feeling that we are doing something worthwhile , are things that money can not buy . |
| 11 | This confusion is partly due to any difficulty we find in accepting that the solution to a long standing problem could be so simple ; confusion may also arise because , being influenced by the pace of today 's world , we presume that we are doing something wrong when we do not achieve immediate results . |
| 12 | We spent a day driving round the villages , asking for information , suspecting that we were missing something vital . |
| 13 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 14 | His extravagant action , his grace , his poise and his enthusiasm combine to produce a perfect jumping machine , and people soon realise that they are watching something exceptional . |
| 15 | What I am trying to illustrate is the fact that teachers will mostly admit , if they are feeling bold enough , that they want to feel that they are doing something important , that other people think so too , that a fair bit of the time they are doing it well , and that they are getting better at it . |
| 16 | Instead of investing money in education programmes which might help counteract rising crime , politicians prefer to hold up the death penalty as evidence that they are doing something tough about crime . |
| 17 | And yet it was when he went on to talk of systems that one felt that he was offering something innovative and new to modern day tennis thinking . |
| 18 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |