Example sentences of "doing it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 2 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 3 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 4 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 5 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 6 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 7 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 8 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 9 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 10 | You take the kind of view that Freud took of sex , namely that sex is , to quote his term , polymorphously perverse , that sex is n't just a simple question of a regular male er doing it with a regular female . |
| 11 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 12 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 14 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 15 | We knew that sooner or later someone was going to buy it and there comes a point when , if something is going to add value for your shareholders , you should contemplate doing it on a hostile basis . ’ |
| 16 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 17 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 18 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 19 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 20 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 21 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 22 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 23 | ‘ By doing this , we 're simplifying the process of using a spreadsheet , and doing it in a consistent way . |
| 24 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 25 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 26 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 27 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 28 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 29 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 30 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |