Example sentences of "doing [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 2 | Am I doing them any harm ? |
| 3 | People used to have an instinctive feeling that all that waste matter hanging around inside them could not be doing them any good . |
| 4 | Is he doing them this year ? |
| 5 | it was n't doing me any good because it was |
| 6 | They 're all saying , it 's not doing me any good . |
| 7 | Well I ai n't doing sort of I ai n't doing nothing sixteen minutes until it gets back . |
| 8 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 9 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |
| 10 | Holyfield starts training next month , but right now is watching the Olympics and doing nothing more testing than shadow boxing and jogging two miles a day around the Crystal Harmony , the Coca-Cola company 's flagship in Barcelona harbour . |
| 11 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 12 | I was doing my four hours on and eight off , and as a supernumerary was given a variety of jobs . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 15 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 16 | ‘ It looks like I 'll be doing my famous General Custer impersonation . |
| 17 | I remember a painful occasion in 1923 when I was doing my usual thing , kicking a tennis ball into the U-shape formed by the three walls . |
| 18 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 19 | Now I , they could , erm one thing that I found b b b b picked up from doing my own reading and studying was that it 's always good to go through with the customer step by step which is to a certain extent what we do do |
| 20 | doing something else when I 'm doing my own work . |
| 21 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 22 | At first I was washing up and making the tea , then I progressed to collecting requests before I finally took the plunge and started doing my own programme . |
| 23 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
| 24 | I love doing my own washing . |
| 25 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 26 | I was much too busy doing my dreadful houseman 's year to notice what was happening . |
| 27 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 28 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 29 | I 'm doing my big scene tomorrow . |
| 30 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |