Example sentences of "[prep] doing [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite . |
| 2 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 3 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 4 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it . |
| 6 | Erm , yes I think , I think , you know , immediately you 're thinking of doing it the branches and obviously you 're running po , pretty big in |
| 7 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 8 | Now , I do n't know whether what other people would , would say about doing it the way we 're suggesting like somebody has completed levels one A , one B , and two A , therefore they 've got this and perhaps |
| 9 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 10 | Where the statutory authority is merely permissive , with no clause imposing liability for nuisance , the authority is not liable for doing what the statute authorises , provided it is not negligent ; but it is liable when there is a clause imposing liability for nuisance , even if it is not negligent . |
| 11 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 12 | Not by doing it the speed he 's doing it . |