Example sentences of "doing [adv] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 2 | The resulting contract was contingent upon the society 's decision to proceed with obtaining a valuation , and by doing so they purified the contract . |
| 3 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 4 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 5 | In doing so he reduced the influence of the Takeshita faction , hitherto the largest internal faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 6 | In doing so it saves the dieter from the common curse of constipation , mainly caused by lack of bulk in normal slimming diets . |
| 7 | Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 8 | It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine . |
| 9 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 10 | Shakespeare knew what he was doing when he called the play ‘ As You Like It ’ . |
| 11 | The latter is indicated in scene eight by his greater turn-allocation ( 11 instances out of 15 turns ) which indicates his interest both in what Chetwyn was doing when he missed the afternoon session of the Colloquium , and in McKendrick 's academic topic of philosophy and catastrophe theory . |
| 12 | It 's a far cry from the kind of work he thought he 'd be doing when he joined the order . |