Example sentences of "doing all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have one pair of shoes at a time , and I wear them out pretty quick because I 'm doing all the canvassing for our lot . |
| 2 | So er , you see , you 'd got to really watch what you was doing all the while . |
| 3 | I thanked Paul 's wife for doing all the cooking , whereupon she remarked that she did n't mind because it meant that she did n't have to watch the Trek videos or play the games . |
| 4 | Every summer she ended up doing all the cooking . |
| 5 | She stayed with us for a month while we regained our strength , doing all the cooking and washing until my mother was fit enough to take over . |
| 6 | It 's passing , yet I 'm the one who is doing all the moving . |
| 7 | The only factor which disturbs the markets moving towards each other in this way , as opposed to the parallel market doing all the moving , is the existence of the Bank of England in its lender of the last resort function . |
| 8 | when a new chapel on that bottom road , where they 're doing all the road works erm where that is the a the address is Glanberrys funny enough ! |
| 9 | Completing the card Liverpool light-welter Charlie Paine made a winning professional debut , beating Del Panayiotiou ( Swansea ) over six rounds by a decisive 60–57 , doing all the chasing and producing all the best right hand work . |
| 10 | They say we are the turkeys but you better believe , We 'll be doing all the stuffing , In the Mid-Counties Combination League . |
| 11 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 12 | It 's a great Jock Scott that 's doing all the damage , ’ came the reply . |
| 13 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |
| 14 | At the moment we 're doing all the giving and the Government is just taking . ’ |
| 15 | Are we gon na fight , how we gon na fight , because the local authority people are fed up with doing all the giving . |
| 16 | But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything . |
| 17 | In an encounter with a high status role the options are few — they can agree to do as they 're told ( in which case you , the teacher , end up doing all the decision-making ) or they can refuse ; it 's a battle of wits and wills : you remain in control or they overthrow you . |
| 18 | You 'll be doing all the washing-up on your own , Keith , I can tell you . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's more fun in a fast car when you 're doing all the overtaking , but even just sitting at seventy you 'd be surprised how much you pass , sometimes . |
| 20 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 21 | Nor are the astronomers doing all the work . |
| 22 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |
| 23 | I do n't eat much at lunch-time myself but we must think of the Captain here who 's doing all the work … perhaps a string or two of those wild boar sausages — do you think they 're local ? |
| 24 | His family is doing all the work , but he is the bishop of this church : the cattle must receive his blessing . |
| 25 | ‘ I was the one doing all the work . |
| 26 | They say there 's too many children with problems round here to worry much about the old well , they 'd damn well have to worry if I was n't here doing all the work would n't they ? |
| 27 | manufacturing cars you know , and it 's all these robots they 're doing all the work . |
| 28 | Your thighs are doing all the work . |
| 29 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
| 30 | The wind is no longer doing all the work for you . |