Example sentences of "[v-ing] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are we training to do other things ? |
| 2 | The Cabinet included three pastors , Ebeling , the SPD leader Markus Meckel as Foreign Minister , and Rainer Eppelmann of DA , the new Disarmament and Defence Minister , who had spent eight months in prison in the early 1960s for refusing to do military service , after which his church in East Berlin became a centre of dissident opposition . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , surely you are n't going to do stupid things with disappearing coins ? ’ said Clovis . |
| 4 | It would be better , she felt , if John were to work with Shirley , the typist , as he was only going to do odd jobs . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're going to do away with standing places , with a 10 per cent cut in the number each year over the next decade , ’ a Dutch association official said yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're going to do away with standing places , with a 10 per cent cut in the number each year over the next decade , ’ a Dutch association official said yesterday . |
| 7 | Mum would have none of this : she was not going to do other people 's dirty washing and she stayed at the fish shop all the war years . |
| 8 | Management has decided that workers are still not ready to be pushed too far towards Japanese-style working methods , or as one assembly worker at Dagenham put it : ‘ If they think I 'm going to do physical jerks and sing the company song before I start my shift , they 've got another think coming . ’ |
| 9 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 10 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 11 | And if you 're going to do thin metal objects or a sort of aluminium frame , do not use the dye stamps on those . |
| 12 | And equally I am concerned about the mushrooming of groups — there are something like 25 , 26 , 27 — all attempting to do various things within West Belfast . |
| 13 | Applying the guidelines in Sched 2 to the UCTA 1977 , the House found that the plaintiff was aware of the term , having done regular business with the defendants . |
| 14 | For not having done other things . " |
| 15 | At the Chemical Society of London there were great debates about the status of atoms in 1867 and 1869 , with Professors at Oxford and at London Universities on opposite sides ; and at the same time in France some of the most distinguished chemists were sceptical of atoms , among them P. E. M. Berthelot , who went on to become Minister of Public Instruction in 1886 , having done distinguished work on synthesis and on calorimetry . |
| 16 | People are having to do long journeys . |
| 17 | ‘ Then they feel guilty because they realise patients have to be treated and their colleagues are having to do extra work . |
| 18 | ‘ They feel guilty because they realise patients have to be treated and their colleagues are having to do extra work . |
| 19 | I 'm sure there are some who are you know , are in a bad way and they 're having to do other things that they should n't be doing . |
| 20 | Did any of them ever resent having to do particular jobs ? |
| 21 | But despite this success , Les could never resist the lure of the stage , continuing to do live variety shows . |
| 22 | No , I was doing doing German nightschool . |
| 23 | Originally intending to do basic programme course it developed into a full HNC incorporating systems analysis and design as well as programming . |
| 24 | ‘ There were a lot of problems with the welfare state , ’ I said , ‘ but that was no reason for trying to do away with it . ’ |
| 25 | In the modern style used by choreographers , they are to an increasing extent trying to do away with all the conventions inherent in the traditional techniques of classical and other styles . |
| 26 | frigging it 's trying to do working class out all frigging time . |
| 27 | month of December was sort of off and trying to do odd things and then she went down with this , this flu er which was progressively worse since the new year . |
| 28 | Romeo has none of his friend 's worldliness , and one of Timothy Welton 's best moments in the part is the animal way he leans and pushes at Richard Hague 's Benvolio in trying to do dying Tybalt further hurt ; another is his early gaucheness approaching Juliet . |
| 29 | The futility of what he was trying to do swept over him . |
| 30 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |