Example sentences of "[be] doing [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
2 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
3 | And we 're doing something on the character of the Christian , er I ca n't , obedience , , righteousness is one and I ca n't remember what the other is . |
4 | Here we 're doing it through the lens of a contemporary artist . ’ |
5 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
6 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
7 | Well that thing 's pretty easy if you 're doing it on the beach but what if you 're out in the water and it suddenly gusts up . |
8 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
9 | so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through |
10 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
11 | It 's only to create an impression when you 're doing it in the day time . |
12 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
13 | They 're doing it by the . |
14 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
15 | ‘ I am doing nothing of the sort . |
16 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
17 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
18 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
19 | We are doing nothing of the sort . |
20 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
21 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
22 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
23 | Trainees will probably need a lot of guidance in completing the exercise in Handout 14 both because they are doing it without the benefit of parents and in order to keep their CBs both objective and closely related to the PBs . |
24 | I have said before , and if it be any satisfaction to him I repeat it now , that if you attempt to enforce this Bill , and the people of Ulster believe , and have a right to believe , that you are doing it against the will of the people of this country , then I shall assist them in resisting it . |
25 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
26 | And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is . |
27 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
28 | Well just any time , we wo n't be doing nothing until the end of May anyway . |
29 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
30 | Well you do n't want to be doing it on the machine down here do you ? |