Example sentences of "[noun] doing [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Legion 's recruiting post was only a small part of a large camp , which also housed French teenagers doing their military service ; it formed an enclave of tidiness and order among the sloppiness of the conscripts ' barracks . |
| 2 | I thought the idea of kids doing their own thing was that it would be cheap and for everybody , not a clique . |
| 3 | I 'll admit I felt just like you do when I first saw Townshend doing his smashing act ; I would have died for the SG he splintered at Woodstock ! |
| 4 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 5 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 6 | Not to be individuals doing our own thing and , walking our own path , but working together with you , in harmony with you and your body in our community , in our situation where we are . |
| 7 | Unix SVR4.0 , 4.1 , 4.2 , ES and MP are all UI reference technologies , but that did n't stop ICL plc doing its own multi-processing SVR4 implementation , Data General Corp working on DG/UX and SunSoft Inc developing its Solaris 2.0 desktop . |
| 8 | Millions and millions of peounds for a few evoc-ative shots of somebody 's home-and-carstle through vaseline and old Jeremy Irons doing his voice-over bit and looking suitably moronic ! |
| 9 | They had decided that they would save a lot of money doing their own purchasing and importing , and Christina wanted to make her own contribution to all the work on the hotel . |
| 10 | Me and Matt doing our own stunts ( good old Norman really screwed the dollars up for me on that clause ) . |
| 11 | Later the same afternoon , seven of us were ordered over to the medical centre for a check up by the doctor , who turned out to be a medical student doing his military service . |
| 12 | Each Table or Area doing its own thing in its own way and as an Association moving powerfully in unison . |
| 13 | this morning , have you seen Paula doing it this morning ? |
| 14 | It had started as an evening of fun , said Harper 's defence team , 5 young people doing what young people have done for centuries . |
| 15 | In the new version , Shared Ark , you are likely to encounter other people doing their own experiments from their own workstations . |
| 16 | It 's people doing their own thing in their own gardens . |
| 17 | It has regular people doing their own thing . |
| 18 | Therefore , the background of the factory scenes features men doing their real work but the scarved and denimed wraiths seen taking lecture notes are actors , it apparently being the Equity assumption that to be a student requires no particular talent or skill . |
| 19 | In addition , there is an even more advanced seven-week Master Chefs ' course , apprentices doing their one-year stint at the Army Apprentices College and a range of specialist courses for everyone from stewards to VIP household chefs . |
| 20 | ‘ To provide a model for citizens doing their own research , growing out of their own local people needs and concerns , rather than for professional consulting firms doing research based on the needs and interests of government agencies . ’ |
| 21 | My job in Ghana was to teach young men and women doing their National Service about community health work in the villages . |
| 22 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |