Example sentences of "doing the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm put a heading er , The test of David Copperfield , but you 're not doing the test you 're making up the test . |
| 2 | at the dismissal date she is incapable because of her pregnancy of doing the work which she is employed to do ; or |
| 3 | There may also be short-cuts that the machinist could take in doing the work which may mean slight deviations from the specification in the drawing . |
| 4 | if you 've got an independent person doing the work they can say Well , we do n't mind what you 're doing falling out among yourselves the will says this and this is what we 're going to do . |
| 5 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 6 | Some people think that childminding is an easy job , but if they spent just half a day doing the work she does I am sure they would soon be ready for bed ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll back Joanna when it comes to doing the work she likes . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of doing the work I 'm doing — and a lot more besides . ’ |
| 9 | At this speed and with the invisible thread doing the damage it is almost impossible to see anything . |
| 10 | Whatever the gender of the person doing the caring it is clear that community care is a policy which is based upon the assumption that there is a pool of willing and able family members prepared to accept the role of ‘ informal carer ’ . |
| 11 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 12 | ‘ I tell kids to do some research , find the label that 's doing the stuff you do , a label that 's sympathetic . |
| 13 | It 's kind of ridiculous that I have to backtrack after doing the performance I did in King Of Comedy , but it 's a very mercurial business . |
| 14 | yeah doing , doing the maths you see I do n't have to do another science next year |
| 15 | Malc 's Mom held a small reception for us , doing the catering herself ( potted meat sandwiches with the crusts cut off ) and paid for a four-day honeymoon in Blackpool , where the landlady would sell us contraceptives — I was n't showing , and pride forced us to put on an act — but said we were too young to smoke and refused us cigarettes . |
| 16 | What 's being bid for Oxford United and more important who 's doing the bidding no-one except the Manor Ground management knows … no statement … no facts … no figures will be released until a deal is done … contracts are signed and the money is in the bank … |
| 17 | Of course , this is only a guide — much of the merit is in doing the exercise itself and thinking about the points raised . |
| 18 | All the abilities Hubble had exercised in doing the astronomy he here applied to producing a model presentation . |
| 19 | Well I 've been doing the landing you know , paint w white paintwork . |
| 20 | But , as already suggested , if it is the police who are doing the tapping what is the prospect of effective steps to stop it ? |
| 21 | But you 'll you 'll if you 're only doing the card you 'll do that much quicker . |
| 22 | Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do . |
| 23 | She loved doing the washing herself . |
| 24 | Several subsequent accounts have referred to Cooper as ‘ David Stirling 's driver ’ , but in fact Stirling always insisted on doing the driving himself . |
| 25 | Old Dr. Mac , his predecessor , had , he knew , taken the occasional case , to keep his hand in as he would say , trotting out to a scene of crime like an old bloodhound happily sniffing after half-forgotten scents , doing the analysis himself , and finally appearing , like a resurrected Old Testament prophet in the witness-box , greeted by the judge with dry judicial compliments , and boisterously welcomed in the bar by counsel like a long-missed old reprobate drinking comrade happily restored to them . |
| 26 | The company has no problem with that because you 're you know if if you 're doing the business you 're happy because you 're getting the commission . |
| 27 | The great fun was doing the pulling which seemed to be an essential part of the process . |
| 28 | A lot of my friends are pleased that the company is doing the job they are doing . |
| 29 | In doing the job they receive little formal guidance from legal rules or administrative policy . |
| 30 | If I could help him — and , after all , he was only doing the job we paid him to do , was n't he ? — ; then it would be a personal shot at redemption on my part . |