Example sentences of "doing that " in BNC.
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| 31 | But maybe it 's important that somebody is doing that . ’ |
| 32 | You see art that 's created by people who are killing themselves making it , and I always wonder how it would turn out if they were n't doing that . |
| 33 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 34 | Q. You thought that by doing that you had wiped out every document that existed that would reflect ( the diversion ) , did n't you ? |
| 35 | A lot of my old school friends are doing that now and they are just hanging loose without a care in the world , it sounds great . |
| 36 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 37 | I had no intention of doing that . |
| 38 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 39 | But doing that inevitably brings the risk back into what was a risk-free investment . |
| 40 | ‘ We will introduce the policies that we have undertaken to introduce , and in the course of doing that I hope we can attract a breadth of support to add to our majority and to add to the degree of consensus supporting that majority , ’ he added . |
| 41 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ They 'll never last doing that sort of thing , ’ remarked one . |
| 43 | In doing that he makes himself miserable . |
| 44 | ‘ What are you doing that makes you fall asleep in the middle of the day ? ’ |
| 45 | Imagine doing that at home at eight in the morning . |
| 46 | ‘ Why are you doing that ? ’ the boy inquired , his curly dark head on one side like a curious robin . |
| 47 | I can remember doing that in my own time . |
| 48 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 49 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 50 | ‘ And you think he 's still doing that ? ’ |
| 51 | We are not doing that ; with our new standards they represent as good a risk as any house . |
| 52 | So we motored past delightful mountains while I occasionally whined from the back seat , ‘ Why are n't we doing that one ? ’ or ‘ ’ That one looks nice ’ , or ‘ Can we stop for a minute please ? ’ |
| 53 | I did n't have a lot of success doing that , so I decided to chance my arm and go to the players ' hotel . |
| 54 | London was the place to prove himself as a choreographer , and he spent almost exactly the next third of his life there , fifteen years , doing that and much more besides . |
| 55 | Doing that on the victim 's head ‘ leaves your hair in one hell of a mess , so after that we all had camomile shampoos from glamorous coiffeuses in white tunics ’ . |
| 56 | He would say , ‘ How about doing that ? ’ and I 'd say , ‘ Well , I … we really should n't do that . |
| 57 | I was convinced she 'd be doing that . |
| 58 | ‘ I hope you 're well away from my tent while you 're doing that , ’ I said . |
| 59 | Nutty reckoned she was doing that already . |
| 60 | You are doing that too often of late . |