Example sentences of "[noun sg] doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want your old man gunning for me when you get drowned or brained by a tree trunk doing ten knots . ’ |
| 2 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 3 | Ani said : ‘ People always seem to be impressed by a girl doing this kind of work . |
| 4 | There is a pleasantly refurbished village hall , centre of a thriving carpet bowl club and many other activities , a newly renovated pub doing good business with a well supported darts club , and smaller church and chapel halls for more intimate meetings . |
| 5 | He appeared to have spent it blamelessly playing golf , dining with neighbours and at home doing some work . |
| 6 | There was less violence , the ‘ appels ’ were not so severe , and we spent much more time in the classroom doing theoretical work for our exams . |
| 7 | There were three ice cream shops and a chip shop doing brisk trade all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of them have had the same experience , and here she 's in a familiar place doing familiar work and I think feeling closer to Whitey . ’ |
| 9 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 10 | Then , establish the key area in which the person doing that job must achieve results , and review them regularly to make sure your employee always has the same view of the job as you do . |
| 11 | So if all women are drunk and are raped then the person doing indecent assault has no case to answer to . ’ |
| 12 | But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore . |
| 13 | Thus , a favoured commercial organisation doing large business with a bank might be charged interest at ‘ 1 per cent over base ’ while an individual client might be paying 4 or 5 per cent over base for an overdraft . |
| 14 | Amnesty International believes that the restrictions placed on prisoners of conscience doing compulsory labour are analogous to imprisonment and therefore urges that they be immediately and unconditionally released . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ She 's pleased to be back doing straightforward presenting . ’ |
| 16 | I have to spend three hours a day doing all sorts of muscle-building and strengthening exercises . |
| 17 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 18 | Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ? |
| 19 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |
| 20 | made earlier on about erm women approving of one woman doing one thing , and not approving another woman doing another . |
| 21 | His work demonstrates that an older person was much more likely to be taken into the household of a relative if they were able to contribute something in return , for example doing domestic work , or looking after children while their mother went out to a job . |
| 22 | But as it emerged , his was the performance which caught fire quicker than any , helped by the deftly-timed efforts of a double doing spectacular somersaults . |
| 23 | Spend the morning doing some sightseeing , pop back to the ship for lunch and come in to see Timothy then ? |
| 24 | She spent a leisurely morning doing some school work , reading the newspapers and then finally taking time dressing for her lunch party . |
| 25 | Oh he he 's spent most of his life doing that Terry |
| 26 | One of the reasons by being s a small removal firm doing light removals , I 'll send one , two , three men out . |
| 27 | The well-known phrase ‘ Jesus went about doing good ’ does not mean that Jesus was just a good man doing good deeds . |
| 28 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 29 | Because , what you 're going back to , just reemphasizing the point earlier , you 're speaking one-to-one , you 're not trying to convince a , a group of , of , of councillors , you 're trying to actually convey a message and , yes , you 're trying to convince , but you 're actually trying to convey a message doing one-to-one interview , across to people who know nothing about it , whereas councillors purport to know something about it . |
| 30 | No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come |