Example sentences of "[be] do [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 3 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 4 | If you go for a ten year fix , Bank of Scotland are doing it at about eight point nine nine . |
| 5 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
| 6 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 7 | ‘ Every Man Now , be his fortune what it will , is to be doing something at his Place , as the fashionable Phrase is , ’ writes an enthusiast in 1739 ‘ and you hardly meet with any Body , who , after the first Compliments , does not inform you , that he is in Mortar and moving of Earth ; the modest terms for Building and Gardening ’ . |
| 8 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 9 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 10 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 11 | People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material . |
| 12 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 13 | Er , I 'm in the view , that this er , Environment Department is at the moment , is doing nothing at all , anything that 's happened so far . |
| 14 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |
| 15 | still be doing it at Christchurch 's till |
| 16 | No he 's doing it at home I think . |
| 17 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 18 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |