Example sentences of "doing with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well what were you doing with it ? ’ she asked , aghast . |
| 2 | Although many attribute to Lo Tak-shing possession of the most byzantine — and very possibly the cleverest -mind in Hong Kong politics , few claim to understand quite what he seems to be doing with it . |
| 3 | It should only be tackled by fit walkers who know what they 're doing with a map and compass . |
| 4 | We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming . |
| 5 | I had the pleasure of two long talks last year with Professor Amaldi about his knowledge of what the German physicists were doing with their atoms during the war years . |
| 6 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 7 | This boy , in spite of a studious shyness with most adults and many girls , had somehow acquired a self-confidence based , not so much on achievement in games or school work , but on a sense of the rightness of what he was doing with his own free time . |
| 8 | Although the garden is not arranged to a precise colour scheme , Connie has strong views on colour , ‘ I ca n't be doing with strong , deep reds so I use them only in moderation . ’ |
| 9 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 10 | What was he doing with me ? |
| 11 | I ca n't be doing with it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There is a gap between what he says he is doing with film and what he actually does . |
| 13 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 14 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 15 | But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket . |
| 16 | ‘ What DID you think you were doing with that monstrous medieval machine ? ’ |
| 17 | Do I start tomorrow looking for a new paper , because the Echo ca n't be doing with a man who lacks the bloody human touch ? |
| 18 | What are you doing with yourself ? ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 20 | Genuine supporters of civil rights in principle were extremely ill-advised to associate as they were doing with the IRA and Communism . |
| 21 | I can be doing with someone to run errands , now Ewan 's gone . ’ |
| 22 | Her home was on the other side of Belsize Square , and he would often drop in at night to tell her about his latest ideas , just as he had done earlier with Dulcie Howes and was to continue doing with one friend or another all his life . |
| 23 | I remember a couple of scenes when David would just go on and on asking me what I was doing with Michael , ’ she says . |
| 24 | See it in your hand — what were you doing with it , which room were you in , in which direction were you facing ? |
| 25 | The electric bite alarms will give me the initial warning and the silver foil will give me a visual guide to what the carp are doing with the bait . |
| 26 | A woman attendant asked me , ‘ What are you doing with that black child ? ’ |
| 27 | The case for this is argued by Jo Stephens ( 1989 ) ( CEO for Oxfordshire ) , when she characterises this partnership of LEA and school as ‘ looking with ’ rather than ‘ looking at ’ , and ‘ doing with ’ rather ‘ doing to ’ . |
| 28 | It is now worthwhile to see how well we are doing with recording the other senses . |
| 29 | But to provide security , comfort and a sense of worth to the parents and relatives who belong to us is a job worth doing and worth doing with all the compassion and love that we can give . |
| 30 | I wonder what he 'd intended doing with the cottage . ’ |