Example sentences of "doing at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 2 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 3 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 4 | I 'm concentrating on what I 'm doing at the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm quite happy with what I 'm doing at the moment , ’ she says , ‘ but obviously , I 'd be interested … ’ |
| 6 | So with our legs and bottoms already aching from the lack of space and the hard seats , we read about the party someone had given in Christ Church , or how well so-and-so was doing at the Ministry of Information , or what little Nicolette had said to her grandmother . |
| 7 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 8 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 9 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 10 | But the thing to remember is they 're always talking about something we 've already done , not something we 're actually doing at the moment . |
| 11 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 12 | Are doing at the sill . |
| 13 | See if you can conjure up a picture of you being successful — what were the events , what were your thoughts and feelings , and what were you doing at the time ? |
| 14 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 15 | Q : What were you and your husband doing at the time ? |
| 16 | Commander Adam Dalgliesh is coming to see me as soon as they 've finished with whatever it is they 're doing at the church . |
| 17 | What 's is was what he was doing at the main committee anyway . . |
| 18 | ( Is there anything else you would rather be doing at the moment , apart from being a housewife and a mother ? ) |
| 19 | What on earth is it doing at the cleaners … |
| 20 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 21 | The things we 're doing at the moment are getting more and more fundamental … . |
| 22 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 23 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 24 | That 's what we 're doing at the moment . |
| 25 | that , what we 're doing at the moment , we wo n't want to b put it all in this system |
| 26 | ‘ If the Americans ever find out what we were doing at the Jenner Clinic , ’ Hennessy told him gloomily , ‘ I wo n't even make it that far . ’ |
| 27 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 28 | half way through do we have n't got a clue what the poor girl 's doing at the moment . |
| 29 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 30 | We could ask further questions — such as , My Lord what you yourself were doing at the banquet on the night Sir Thomas died ? |