Example sentences of "doing [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if we make the reward of the item of food erm not predictable , okay , so it comes at variable intervals er then the rat actually works harder pressing the lever , it 's more likely to do the behaviour and it 's less likely to give up doing that behaviour afterwards , okay ? |
| 2 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 3 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 4 | What had you been doing that day ? |
| 5 | And there was a neurosis and an anxiety involved around doing that solo record for me , because I 'd never done one before and I did n't know if I could actually pull it off . |
| 6 | wheel bearings might want doing that bloke 's |
| 7 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 8 | No , not there , doing that bit |
| 9 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 10 | And whilst he was doing that operation where was P C ? |
| 11 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | I 'm doing that computer course in the spring . |
| 13 | In other words it can take doing that person no good service like if there 's any doubt suspending it immediately . |
| 14 | Oh he he 's spent most of his life doing that Terry |
| 15 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
| 16 | ‘ We were doing horn-led , jump blues and after five years of doing that stuff , I got tired of it . |
| 17 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 18 | I do n't think you 'd like me doing that Alex ? |
| 19 | that was the trouble you had with that table top , do you remember doing that polishing ? |
| 20 | When they 're doing that others will be collating the information and hopefully er , the television cameras , B B C have expressed an interest in coming down and so have the newspapers to actually do erm some sort of documentary on that , and put a display up in the school and also down at the Royal Quays just linked to us . |
| 21 | We do n't now go on the Saga holidays , simply because they er or solely because you need to go down to Gatwick to catch the planes and we 're not to doing that East Midlands or . |
| 22 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 23 | This time last Saturday we were frantically doing that painting . |
| 24 | Well that fail sign was n't on the caravan when we was doing that axle underneath . |
| 25 | The essentials of Taylorism involve the use of work-study engineers to study in fine detail the work an individual is doing ; through detailed analysis develop the most efficient method of doing that work and establish a ‘ fair ’ time for performing particular elements of the task ; develop a specialised staff function whose task is to allocate jobs to individual workers ; and monitor performance against the rated time for the job . |
| 26 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 27 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 28 | Trade unions will be placing with their lawyers a large amount of employment-related personal injury work and the lawyers already doing that work will be highly specialised . |
| 29 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 30 | I can remember him doing that way back , when he was this age . |