Example sentences of "doing [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 2 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 3 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 5 | What was he doing as a Black and Tan officer ? |
| 6 | What is the Minister doing about a comprehensive fuel policy ? |
| 7 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 8 | I should imagine that Irene Charial might be in the habit of dropping in on her uncle occasionally and he would n't want her saying , ‘ Whatever are you doing with a spare radio in your cabin , Uncle ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When I first met Stephen it was all , ‘ what 's she doing with a young man like that ? ’ |
| 10 | Though what she 's doing with a thick Irish cunt like you is beyond me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What 's a nice guy like me doing in a dirty job like this ? |
| 12 | She even hummed along with the radio as she rattled down the motorway , something she had n't felt like doing in a long time . |
| 13 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 14 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 15 | ‘ So what are you doing in a subsidiary personality , getting drunk ? ’ |
| 16 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 17 | Firwood Bootle 's skipper Ian Cockbain knew what he was doing on a soft unpredictable Aigburth pitch when he declared at what seemed an easy target at Liverpool . |
| 18 | What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’ |
| 19 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 20 | ‘ What on earth are you doing at a right-wing party like this ? ’ asks a city type . |
| 21 | Valuable experience can be gained in small agencies anywhere because you may have to turn your hand to any job that needs doing at a given moment . |