Example sentences of "[prep] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to be out doing various things . |
| 2 | He kept the flat tidy while Robyn was out doing good works , and always had a cup of cocoa or a bowl of soup ready for her when she returned home , tired but invariably triumphant . |
| 3 | After doing six arcs you will have a template , |
| 4 | One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm . |
| 5 | ’ It feels good to do a film with a pace like ( snaps his fingers quickly ) after doing small films . ’ |
| 6 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 7 | Plasticy you should of done that plasticy thing ? |
| 8 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
| 9 | I do think that you 're , when you 're doing it , thinking of doing two bits , |
| 10 | Castigation and exhortation are not the best ways of doing that seeking . |
| 11 | The essentials of Taylorism involve the use of work-study engineers to study in fine detail the work an individual is doing ; through detailed analysis develop the most efficient method of doing that work and establish a ‘ fair ’ time for performing particular elements of the task ; develop a specialised staff function whose task is to allocate jobs to individual workers ; and monitor performance against the rated time for the job . |
| 12 | ‘ We were doing horn-led , jump blues and after five years of doing that stuff , I got tired of it . |
| 13 | But the point t that Hughie makes is that y you allocate er y you , you make the project engineer someone who have trained , and , and that you know is capable of doing that job . |
| 14 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 15 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 16 | We welcome the wider scope now open to married women of serving on town councils , and hope in the near future that many of our women will have the opportunity of doing useful work on our local health committees . |
| 17 | Many teachers mentioned the difficulties of doing practical work in classrooms without storage space , in rooms scattered over a large campus , in departments without money to buy equipment . |
| 18 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 19 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 20 | They are , however , capable of doing substantial damage to other corals placed too close to them , even for short periods . |
| 21 | You know as well as I do , Christina , Barbados has a way of doing strange things to people . ’ |
| 22 | She said her husband seemed to be unbalanced and capable of doing nasty things to their children . |
| 23 | The magazine Paris Match printed them with ‘ the intention of doing serious harm and with manifest indelicacy ’ for commercial ends . |
| 24 | It is still popularly held , in the face of all the evidence , that women are incapable of doing certain forms of work . |
| 25 | We must also try to ensure we get people capable of doing specific jobs to a reasonable standard . |
| 26 | Day-to-day work otherwise may consist of doing ordinary press and public relations work for your client as part of an industry , for example , as a manufacturer of components to the automobile industry . |
| 27 | Many of us have thought of doing similar studies , but none of us has been brave enough to incur the wrath of the establishment . |
| 28 | ‘ The reality is that the West Indians in 1991 did everything Richards accused the Australians of doing 16 years earlier , ’ McDermott wrote , referring to the 1975-76 series in Australia . |
| 29 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
| 30 | erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception . |