Example sentences of "were doing [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ones were doing are , absolute walk in the pan |
| 2 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 3 | The Orkney word for what we were doing is chanting . |
| 4 | Erm what we were doing is , i what it was for , was for , for prospective buyers , they wanted erm a justification for |
| 5 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 6 | All that the Arse were doing were playing simple balls over the top of Fairclough & Newsome , for Wright & Campbell to run onto , and the defence could n't really cope . |
| 7 | But er the things that they were doing were just unbelievable . |
| 8 | In other words , the managers at the LBO could have achieved similar results without a buy-out ; what they were doing was seizing the gain for themselves . |
| 9 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 10 | But his curiosity about what others were doing was itself astonishingly forceful . |
| 11 | Poor souls , all they were doing was cutting calorie intake — the hard way . |
| 12 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 13 | JB : Just working alongside these people , and seeing them being involved in whatever it was they were doing was stimulating in a strange sort of way , and kept us on our toes . |
| 14 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 15 | In this , as in much else , the fallen Communist leaders could plead that all they were doing was imitating Lenin . |
| 16 | What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds . |
| 17 | But Suzy said there were all kinds of awards young people could get , particularly if what they were doing was connected with conservation — I was really surprised . |
| 18 | What Thucydides and his contemporaries were doing was ‘ challenging ’ social dogma , not simply ‘ readjusting ’ it , and it is in this characteristic of classical Greek scholarship that we can identify the crucial consequence of acquiring literacy . |
| 19 | This sounded a hollow threat while all we were doing was folding our clothes and learning how to be housetrained and use flushing lavatories . |
| 20 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 21 | All they were doing was waiting for their Dad . |
| 22 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 23 | What we were doing was total duplication . |
| 24 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 25 | I mean , I suppose what the others were doing was illegal , but it 's not as if they were forcing anyone to take the stuff . |
| 26 | He could see that all the interest groups were doing was shifting the balance of power , leaving some more powerful at the expense of others . |
| 27 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 28 | Erm what we were doing was filling in these these postcards asking MPs to turn up on February the fourth to support the energy conservation bill when it has its er second reading in Parliament . |
| 29 | ‘ If you really thought what you were doing was above-board you would have invited Sarella here long before this . ’ |
| 30 | He said yesterday : ‘ The message is : do n't blame us and , moreover , if you thought what we were doing was right , give us some backing . ’ |