Example sentences of "doing [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you see doing them in the isolated spot |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 4 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 5 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 6 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 8 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 9 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 10 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 11 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 12 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 13 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 17 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
| 18 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |