Example sentences of "doing all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | Dr Runcie acknowledged that ‘ wealth creation ’ was the necessary precondition for ‘ doing all the things we ought to do ’ but added that there was no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society . |
| 4 | He reports a supposed telephone conversation between Margaret Thatcher and the Dutch Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , with Mrs Thatcher doing all the talking and demanding that Mr Lubbers help with her problems . |
| 5 | Nor are the astronomers doing all the work . |
| 6 | You 'll be doing all the washing-up on your own , Keith , I can tell you . |
| 7 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 8 | Someone doing all the things she is alleged to have done . |
| 9 | In reality , the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch , a 50-year-long saga of crossed purposes — with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 10 | Because they continued to be economically independent , these working older people , both men and women , were often remembered as strong characters , like the Lancashire shopkeeping grandmother , a ‘ powerful personality ’ who was without any doubt ‘ boss of the concern ’ , or the old North Welsh woman who ‘ was doing all the cobbling for the neighbours in Berthengam , and … they were done by her well . ’ |
| 11 | He argued with her silently , pointing out that by any normal standards she was doing all the wrong things and was allowing her story to end badly or wrongly . |
| 12 | It 's a great Jock Scott that 's doing all the damage , ’ came the reply . |
| 13 | The Cid was then before Albarrazin , doing all the evil that he could , and he brake up his camp and came with his host to Juballa ; and Abeniaf and the Alcaydes of Xativa and Carchayra came unto him , and they renewed their covenant to stand by each other , and be of one voice . |
| 14 | Tim Skerritt was doing all the talking . |
| 15 | Never mind if they were busy doing all the wrong things ! |
| 16 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 17 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 18 | Susan had insisted on doing all the washing up by herself ; they 'd all had too much wine and might break something , she said . |
| 19 | My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank . |
| 20 | Whereas if I start doing all the crazy embellishments instead , everyone is going to have to react . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Dustin , who has said that he envies pregnant women , followed a natural childbirth course with Anne , doing all the exercises she did . |
| 22 | An alternative might be the new technology bringing us to the leisure society with machines doing all the productive work and people freed to follow their own leisure pursuits . |
| 23 | I thanked Paul 's wife for doing all the cooking , whereupon she remarked that she did n't mind because it meant that she did n't have to watch the Trek videos or play the games . |
| 24 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |
| 25 | Every summer she ended up doing all the cooking . |
| 26 | ‘ Why 's the woman doing all the talking ? ’ |
| 27 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 28 | At the moment we 're doing all the giving and the Government is just taking . ’ |
| 29 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |
| 30 | Laughton added that speculation about John Gallagher leaving Headingley sounded as though the player 's agent was doing all the talking . |