Example sentences of "[prep] doing the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light dawned : it was n't her pillock of a little brother at all , but La Famille Cantona out doing the shopping . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's kind of ridiculous that I have to backtrack after doing the performance I did in King Of Comedy , but it 's a very mercurial business . |
| 4 | The purpose of the test is to provide an objective basis for assessing the nature and extent of participants ' alcohol knowledge before and after doing the course . |
| 5 | The middle picture shows a disconsolate Dick Francis as The Queen Mother 's Devon Loch is calmed after doing the splits 50 yards from the winning post in 1956 . |
| 6 | I would like to think that after doing the stuff and the and that , that they actually get down to something solid . |
| 7 | ‘ At least it 's decent work after doing The Jungle Bunny and thrillers and beer commercials . ’ |
| 8 | With 115 Squadron at Marham , after doing the conversion course , I was part of the crew that took WF562 down to Odiham for the Coronation Review of the RAF , but what was not mentioned was the cleaning of the aircraft using tins of ‘ Duraglit ’ by air and ground crew before we went , only to fly through a rain storm on the way down and having to do it all over again , when we arrived . |
| 9 | Well after after after doing the clipping wagons on , I went the other end er cl er knocking clips off . |
| 10 | If you only have one rope , do your second a favour and either double it up or pull it through after doing the pitch and drop it back to your mate to protect the moves down the flake . |
| 11 | But Raymond 's way of doing the dishes |
| 12 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a funny way of doing the G |
| 14 | of doing the rounds of the ‘ Heligoland ’ traps before breakfast in the morning to see whether the night had brought any ‘ new ’ birds . |
| 15 | I scrapped the idea of doing the music for it after ten pages . |
| 16 | at the dismissal date she is incapable because of her pregnancy of doing the work which she is employed to do ; or |
| 17 | As with all living creatures , there are good and bad , suitable and unsuitable , and it figures that you must invest in animals capable of doing the work required of them . |
| 18 | Although I was capable of doing the work and doing a good job , I did n't want to be letting people down and that . |
| 19 | Because if you do n't get a job you do n't even have the chance of doing the work . |
| 20 | This authority must include at least these four elements : ( I ) the right to veto any applicant who , in the manager 's opinion , falls below the minimum standards of ability ; ( 2 ) the power to make work assignments ; ( 3 ) the power to carry out performance appraisals and , within the limits of company policy , to make decisions — not recommendations — about raises and merit rewards ; and ( 4 ) the authority to initiate removal — at least from the manager 's own team — of anyone who seems incapable of doing the work . |
| 21 | The broker claimed damages , for breach of contract , of over £250,000 based on the wasted expense and the difference in price between the system obtained and a new system that would be capable of doing the work . |
| 22 | Admission to the panel comes by the provision of detailed case histories , together with supporting documents , showing that you are capable of doing the work , and that you do so in an efficient and proper manner . |
| 23 | The solicitor is entitled to charge the broad average direct cost of doing the work . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of doing the work I 'm doing — and a lot more besides . ’ |
| 25 | Cos you 're actually trying to estimate the true cost of doing the work . |
| 26 | Somebody else can fiddle around with the figures when they tender for it , but you 're trying to get a true cost of doing the work . |
| 27 | Had Edwin spent idle hours in this room while his daughter made a great parade of doing the housework and kept up a running vituperative commentary on the last person or event to incur her displeasure ? |
| 28 | Do you really think he 'll be capable of doing the operation ? |
| 29 | We were given tasks , but then the tasks had been given to certain people like yourself , starting to want to do the other things , that other people were doing , and then everybody wanted to do instead of doing the tasks that they were set . |
| 30 | This is very quickly which I did n't have before , my way of doing the trading account and Ian was going to sympathize because he said there 's no need to put exactly but for us it 's quite interesting to see that . |