Example sentences of "be do [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 2 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're doing quite a lot of research in most of these areas — though of course we all agree we ought to do more . |
| 4 | They 're doing now a model . |
| 5 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 6 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 7 | You know how some sports cars manage to look like they are doing about a hundred miles while still parked at the kerb ? |
| 8 | We also feel it 's important that we should be doing just a bit more than just having exchanges , that there is a whole process of that needs to go on . |
| 9 | ‘ Something you 'll be doing rather a lot of , ’ said Robert , ‘ if you insist on wearing those ridiculous clothes . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm doing quite a lot of work behind the scenes and talking to various people but I 'm not rushing into anything . |
| 11 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 12 | She 's done quite a good job . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's done quite a lot of good for this country , ’ Bill says . |
| 14 | I understand he 's done quite a lot of his work in Venice . ’ |
| 15 | He 's doing quite a few weekends on duty , to earn a bit of money . |
| 16 | Er , you may be glad to know , or unhappy to know , that I 'm actually still on contact with the health service because I 'm a non-executive director of the Royal London Trust , which works of course , in Whitechapel , one of the poorer areas of London , and it 's not quite so glamorous as Guys , but actually it 's doing quite a good job . |
| 17 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 18 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 19 | He was doing quite a lot of this , I noted . |
| 20 | Mm , it 's alright I 've just seen a , a woman er passing a three wheeler on the pavement here , wheel chair and she was doing quite a bit of a speed , I was just gon na get my , my my speed checker |