Example sentences of "[adv] doing a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 2 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 3 | ‘ And the senator tells me that you 're only doing a two-week trial with his kids , is that right ? ’ |
| 4 | If you do n't do that efficiently then you are not doing a good job for the community . |
| 5 | If they do it too much then the farrier 's not doing a good job |
| 6 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 7 | TOTAL WATER HEATING OR NOT — I 'M NOT DOING A NUDE SCENE . |
| 8 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 9 | So let's sweep aside this idea of appointees because the Home Secretary of the day and his predecessor and the Home Office and the inspectorate feel that the police authorities are not doing a proper job , give them the tools to do a pres proper job . |
| 10 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 11 | You find yourself not doing a whole lot of things you once did without a thought . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know he 's going to do a first-rate job , ’ said Edward Crumwallis , gazing towards the door , where Hilary Frome was already doing a first-rate job with two of the more important parents . |
| 13 | The South-West Shropshire Historical and Archeological Society is already doing a good job in recording the history of the area , especially that which is in living memory , or only one or two generations removed . |
| 14 | The public bar was already doing a brisk trade . |
| 15 | Right if you 're doing something , just doing a straight bit of text which |
| 16 | I 'm just doing a quick shwooo . |
| 17 | Sex would seem to be one , but you will be discussing this and hopefully doing a fair amount of reading on the subject . |
| 18 | Yeah I , one of the , yeah yeah , I to started off doing a little bit like that but you find things do n't actually sit in categories very well that 's becomes one of the problems . |
| 19 | Why are we any better off doing a direct debit ? |
| 20 | They 're still doing a wee bit there . |
| 21 | He was still looking down and still doing a little dance . |
| 22 | I was once doing a live phone-in programme and this woman rang up and she said , ‘ I used to think that your impersonation of Princess Anne was needlessly cruel and unpleasant , but now I realize that they were , in fact , your own teeth . ’ |
| 23 | I think , yeah , it was my dad said , that the way they try to do combined science it 's like doing a combined maths and English paper . |
| 24 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 25 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 26 | They 're probably doing a Social Survey . |
| 27 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 28 | I 've stayed at my desk until half past seven , writing up the minutes of our meeting at the Treasury — even doing a little preparation for a series of consultations I have to begin tomorrow in connection with the Annual Assessment . |
| 29 | Well you tell a bloke you wo n't get it while you 're until the end of next week , cos I 'm doing a bloke 's spitfire , I ai n't pissing around doing a flaming grill |
| 30 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |