Example sentences of "doing [pron] [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | doing something else when I 'm doing my own work . |
| 2 | Significantly , another housewife mentioned the fact that housework is not paid work as a reason for disliking it ; she said she would be happier doing someone else 's housework for pay than doing her own work . |
| 3 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 4 | And yet they are under enormous stress when they are doing their best work . |
| 5 | Therefore , the background of the factory scenes features men doing their real work but the scarved and denimed wraiths seen taking lecture notes are actors , it apparently being the Equity assumption that to be a student requires no particular talent or skill . |
| 6 | Doc Threadneedle had fixed her body up so she healed quick , and the stinging meant that the micro-organisms he had fed into her flesh were doing their good work . |
| 7 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 8 | Grendon starts doing its best work after 18 months , but it 's hard work getting there . |
| 9 | Eliot , who says that while the reader works at subduing the difficulty of a poem , the poem is doing its emotional work on him . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll find you a book , ’ said Joe , who needed to keep his living-room to himself when he was doing his specialized work . |
| 11 | He loved teaching and talks enthusiastically about it , but felt it was time to enjoy doing his own work . |
| 12 | But then tomorrow he 's actually doing his own work . |
| 13 | Even Raine 's critics acknowledge that , in doing what dirty work had to be done and attracting the odium that went with it , she has put her stepson in a strong position . |
| 14 | I know you 're doing your French work sheet but turn round and put that down now . |
| 15 | ‘ Why ? ’ she retorts , ‘ can we not give something back by doing our own work ? ’ |