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Example sentences of "doing [adj] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Yes , but he was doing that a second ago .
2	In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor .
3	I said look what if I 'm a mile and a half from college I 'm not doing that every day !
4	And some of them are practically doing that every night !
5	I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether .
6	the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job .
7	‘ He 's earning four times too much for doing half the job . ’
8	A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine .
9	He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night .
10	Most claim to bottle-feed at least once a day , with many doing half the daytime feeds .
11	She does n't know what she 's doing half the time !
12	He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now .
13	I used to have a friend at Hull University but we 're doing this a year too late .
14	‘ I 'm not doing this every morning , ’ he said .
15	All correspondence to ( God , I hate doing this every frigging week ) AITS-N !
16	Cos I 'm not doing this every year .
17	Oh do n't get me wrong I do n't like doing this every night .
18	Mind , I get bored to tears with doing this every damn day !
19	In doing this the anthropologist ‘ at home ’ quickly comes to understand why he must always stand on the margins of structure .
20	While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman .
21	By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee .
22	It is felt that by doing this the planning department can gain a better understanding of the information needed by the business units , their concerns and possible ways in which they could be assisted .
23	The significance of this case is not only that the House of Lords effectively over-ruled the majority decision in Candler but also that in doing this the judgment went beyond Lord Denning 's minority judgment .
24	While doing this the bird usually adopts a particular posture , with wing and tail spread , allowing access to the base of its feathers .
25	Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’
26	And you 're doing this the whole time .
27	In doing this the government was employing techniques perfected from the sixteenth century onwards in the expansion of the Muscovite state towards the Black Sea and the Volga basin .
28	In doing this the subject will fail to detect that it was not trespasses that was presented , but the mispronunciation tresbasses .
29	Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days .
30	Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it .