Example sentences of "be doing [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
| 3 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 4 | I seem to be doing nothing but making lists of things that need fixing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The IMF will not lend any money unless India shows it is doing something about putting its house in order , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |