Example sentences of "doing [adj] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 2 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 3 | ‘ In heaven 's name , what have the police been doing all these weeks ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And , during all this time , when Stalin was doing all these terrible things , ’ he bawled , ‘ what were you doing ? ’ pointing an accusing finger at Georgy Malenkov , Vyacheslav Molotov , Lazar Kaganovich , Georgy Zhukov , Mikhail Suslov , Anastas Mikoyan and Kliment Voroshilov , the great mandarins on the platform , who between them had ruled Mother Russia under Stalin for the previous quarter of a century . |
| 5 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told him to stop doing all these dreary panel shows , ’ Julian Clary tells me . |
| 7 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 8 | Okay so you 'll be doing all these how far is it from one place to the other . |
| 9 | When pupils complain that they ‘ do n't see the point of doing all these ’ , they are often given a remote justification — ‘ you 'll need it when you buy a carpet ’ . |
| 10 | That 's the trouble with doing all these films and tellies — you just have to remember a little bit for a short take . |
| 11 | What had we been doing all these years if not promoting fitness , well-being , stamina , strength , and mobility ? |
| 12 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 13 | You seen all these adverts about starting your own business , you know , governments like , you know , doing all these courses and making it out as though it 's it 's dead easy to get fi , you know hitting your head against a brick wall |
| 14 | I 'm getting worn out doing this , it 's hurting my eyes after going to the pictures and then doing all these bingo cards for granddad |
| 15 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
| 16 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 17 | Why are we doing all these things ? |
| 18 | And she 's doing all these things ? |
| 19 | She 's doing all these things really thrilled to bits , and I say , well look , you like this do n't you ? |
| 20 | and then I was doing two these colours and I 'd |