Example sentences of "doing [pron] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | doing something else when I 'm doing my own work . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I love doing my own washing . |
| 16 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( When doing her own housework Marilyn Thornton has the radio on constantly ‘ for company ’ . ) |
| 19 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 20 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 21 | doing her own thing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They relaxed and started doing their own things . |
| 24 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 25 | In the new version , Shared Ark , you are likely to encounter other people doing their own experiments from their own workstations . |
| 26 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
| 27 | He forecast that lack of access to legal aid could lead to people 's taking the law into their own hands , doing their own litigation or doing nothing to defend themselves . |
| 28 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 29 | The result was that in spite of some misgivings about the script and the incessantly repetitive dialogue about them doing their own thing , reviewers spoke glowingly of ‘ an actor named Jack Nicholson … is magnificent ’ and ‘ he gave a brilliantly witty performance ’ . |
| 30 | P. Yeah , people who have left school are free , toodling about doing their own thing . |