Example sentences of "doing [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's doing everything the wrong way round at the wrong time . |
| 2 | Personal preference naturally varies but more benefit is to be gained by having a reasonable breakfast and lunch and a smaller evening meal ( even though most of us are used to doing it the other way around ) . |
| 3 | Rather than doing it the other way . |
| 4 | doing it the other day . |
| 5 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 6 | I was go , thinking about doing it the other way to see what you 'd say , but then I thought , no ! |
| 7 | Yeah , if they 're delayed getting on the motorway and see that they 're doing it the other side coming off , they might be saying |
| 8 | he wants to see you doing it the other way as well |
| 9 | 13 Doing it the Right way |
| 10 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 11 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
| 12 | I says , We 're doing it the right way , the proper way now you see . |
| 13 | ‘ But you do realise that you 'll be doing it the hard way ? |
| 14 | Well I think this war the aim of this war is to achieve erm minimum casualty , and by doing what the allied forces are doing by denying the Iraqui forces the logistics such as transportations and communication system is very vital to reduce the power of the enemy and then you can force him to retreat , or you can weaken the army that will result in minimum casualty for the allied forces . |
| 15 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 16 | In November 1945 , she went to the B–17 graveyard in Arizona , where the breakers succeeded in doing what the Nazi flak and fighters had failed to do — destroy Mary Alice . |
| 17 | They say they 're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed . |
| 18 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |