Example sentences of "doing [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks like I 'll be doing my famous General Custer impersonation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 6 | I was much too busy doing my dreadful houseman 's year to notice what was happening . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I 'm doing my big scene tomorrow . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |
| 11 | ‘ Daisy Pettigrew is doing her usual food parcel scheme for the old age pensioners , ’ Sophia reminded him . |
| 12 | For the next few weeks she ploughed on , doing her normal writing , extolling the virtues of the firm 's products . |
| 13 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 14 | As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence . |
| 15 | ‘ We always started seriously , usually discussing Louisa and perhaps her problems with her legs which stopped her doing her old-time dancing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You had it all wrong — your mother was just doing her silly act , like these avant-garde artists . |
| 17 | When Jean stopped doing her silly things ? |
| 18 | It is as though you see the world through a glass wall ; everybody is there doing their usual things but there is no connection with you at all . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Legion 's recruiting post was only a small part of a large camp , which also housed French teenagers doing their military service ; it formed an enclave of tidiness and order among the sloppiness of the conscripts ' barracks . |
| 22 | On the other hand , until 1870 , and even thereafter , there were still German industrialists who refused to allow their nephews to become reserve-officers , as being unsuitable for young men of their class , or whose sons insisted on doing their military service in the infantry or engineers rather than the socially more exclusive cavalry . |
| 23 | Both types have had , and still have , a utility within the SAAF — they are both doing their respective jobs well . |
| 24 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 25 | My job in Ghana was to teach young men and women doing their National Service about community health work in the villages . |
| 26 | In addition , there is an even more advanced seven-week Master Chefs ' course , apprentices doing their one-year stint at the Army Apprentices College and a range of specialist courses for everyone from stewards to VIP household chefs . |
| 27 | Except the brain is screaming for more dopamine , so you overdose because you ca n't accept that the drug is n't working any longer , and it 's then that cocaine starts doing its other things to you . |
| 28 | Eliot , who says that while the reader works at subduing the difficulty of a poem , the poem is doing its emotional work on him . |
| 29 | ‘ Your money , Sir , will be doing its patriotic duty to make our nation wealthy . ’ |
| 30 | what you doing you daft cat ? |