Example sentences of "doing a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) has being doing a first-class job on the Committee . |
| 2 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 3 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 4 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 5 | And there was a traffic warden standing there doing a traffic er doing a fixed penalty ticket . |
| 6 | She was doing a reasonable Madonna impression : black leather mini-skirt , black fishnets and ankle socks , black and silver high heels . |
| 7 | ‘ Shit , ’ said Johnny , doing a reasonable impression of a Dalek . |
| 8 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 9 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 10 | Later there was a letter from the BBC about doing a long television interview . |
| 11 | I think , yeah , it was my dad said , that the way they try to do combined science it 's like doing a combined maths and English paper . |
| 12 | Yeah , he 's talking about , he 's doing a rockumentary type thing with clips of the gig , that sort of thing . |
| 13 | I do n't think they are doing a brilliant job as they do n't have the experience . |
| 14 | The small retailer , such as the ‘ corner shop ’ , tends to rely on doing a regular stock-check : this means looking at what goods are on the shelves in the shop and the stockroom , and making a note of any items that are ‘ getting low ’ . |
| 15 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |
| 16 | There 's a cost implication there of doing a separate fax for each consultant . |
| 17 | She 'll make regular transmissions till eleven hundred hours then she 'll be doing a deep dive , so you 'll hear no more from her till she surfaces at fifteen hundred hours . |
| 18 | Right if you 're doing something , just doing a straight bit of text which |
| 19 | I 'm considering doing a mini-series set in the 1940s or 50s called The Silence Of Dean Maitland . |
| 20 | Shinwell , always a better politician than administrator , was widely felt to be doing a poor job in this crucial economic ministry . |
| 21 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 22 | Paul opens the door , to be confronted by a bespectacled American doing a poor impersonation of Chuck D. Four Eyes is pursing his lips , pointing a finger at Merton while offering him a mock high five . |
| 23 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 24 | And also the number of points that you want to make , particularly if you 're doing a pro-active interview , should be limited to only two or three main points . |
| 25 | With the help of many of the same printing presses , ink suppliers and distributors , Harlequin Enterprises , a Canadian firm which dominates the world 's romantic-fiction market , is doing a roaring business by expanding into Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 27 | At the fair itself there were country crafts and country foods , with the stallholders doing a roaring trade . |
| 28 | At 7.30 in the evening , the local inn , the Chequers , was doing a roaring trade . |
| 29 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 30 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |