Example sentences of "[be] [prep] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 2 | The first three skills are essentially about thinking , the last three are about doing . |
| 3 | Really what the point I 'm trying to make is training objectives are about doing something . |
| 4 | Erm there have been times doing work which we have er , worked on together different jobs when I have thought , yes this is what I 'm here for . |
| 5 | ‘ I make no secret , ’ said Samuel suddenly , who had obviously been considering doing just that , ‘ that I disliked the fellow . |
| 6 | When they 're through doing that , bring the equipment out again and come on home with the videotape . ’ |
| 7 | it 's , it 's worth , they 're worth doing when , when you get any damage |
| 8 | Y but yes but we 're by doing some form of sale |
| 9 | SAGITTARIUS You are into doing your own thing at the moment and exploring your own creativity . |
| 10 | Later in the post it should be established how successful they have been in doing so . |
| 11 | If your gearbox became faulty , however , then it would probably be worth doing . |
| 12 | But it would n't be worth doing , if there was n't a chance that it might end in tears . |
| 13 | The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing . |
| 14 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 15 | Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in . |
| 16 | I would n't even know what the purpose would be for doing it , really . |
| 17 | I have to be out doing various things . |
| 18 | So did the Famlio thugs , after Pulvidon he snarled at them , not wanting to be out doing . |
| 19 | Just think what it will be like doing the high jump with 50,000 people watching you ! ’ |
| 20 | It wo n't be like doing a job . |
| 21 | To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh . |
| 22 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 23 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 24 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 25 | What , so your at the uhum , place , while I 'm at doing . |
| 26 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 27 | But we could find that all of them were worth doing and then we would have to consider comparative advantages . |
| 28 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 29 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 30 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |