Example sentences of "[be] do that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 you know , thinking they will , oh christ you know what am I sitting down here for doing that anyhow , I could of been done that at home before I did n't have
2 Is that but you 're doing that at school are you as well ?
3 Well do n't keep going too long with them if they 're doing that to you Cathy cos
4 if you start talking any other business about wha except what you 're doing there then they 'll think that you 're doing that as an as a side .
5 But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century .
6 By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years .
7 I 've been doing that for a long , long time .
8 ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’
9 I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July .
10 Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English
11 They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour .
12 I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't .
13 I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ?
14 Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence — as though women have n't been doing that for centuries .
15 I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on .
16 I know they 've been doing that for ages .
17 Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up .
18 So we 've been doing that with children as well .
19 He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima :
20 ‘ We have to talk about it but I will be doing that with my colleagues at the FA before I talk to anyone else . ’
21 He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely .
22 David I do n't suppose you want to be doing that for
23 It is tragic that they should be doing that to local authority employees .
24 We 're gon na have to be doing that at the same time .
25 He 'll a took bairn out cos they 'll of gone for extra funds , social and got , they 'll be doing that at moment wo n't they ?
26 Because we were doing that at the beginning of the week , a scare , you could actually get
27 And we were doing that in front of 30 people at the Mean Fiddler .
28 They were doing that in a number of ways .
29 moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were .
30 ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’
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