Example sentences of "of doing that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm thinking of doing that ! ’ |
| 2 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 3 | I had no intention of doing that . |
| 4 | ‘ We will introduce the policies that we have undertaken to introduce , and in the course of doing that I hope we can attract a breadth of support to add to our majority and to add to the degree of consensus supporting that majority , ’ he added . |
| 5 | I am very much in favour of doing that and I guess that since this conference has got the environment on its agenda we may hope to hear bright new suggestions of how to avoid dilemmas of that kind . |
| 6 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 7 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 8 | Now that we have the practice of dustmen only collecting plastic bags that you have to place outside your residence , you have to be sure that you are capable of doing that . |
| 9 | I have no intention of doing that . |
| 10 | ‘ We were doing horn-led , jump blues and after five years of doing that stuff , I got tired of it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What is the point of doing that when they present precisely the opposite image in real life ? |
| 13 | Mr Major added : ‘ It is necessary to enforce the no-fly zone but there is more than one way of doing that . |
| 14 | He has not been bought to play like Hughes , but to score goals — and he has a real chance of doing that . |
| 15 | I 'm thinking of doing that , actually , with Mark Arm and Eric from Hole . |
| 16 | In his view the only way of preventing the disputes was to make the office less attractive , and the best means of doing that was to lower the salary . |
| 17 | I 've never thought of doing that to Stuart . |
| 18 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 19 | ‘ He is the last one here I would have expected to think of doing that . ’ |
| 20 | But the point t that Hughie makes is that y you allocate er y you , you make the project engineer someone who have trained , and , and that you know is capable of doing that job . |
| 21 | And er we 'd get the princely sum of threepence of doing that . |
| 22 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 23 | And part of the mystery of our existence , is if they we If we give ourselves in faith to God , even in the small and inauspicious ways , the consequences of doing that might be enormous . |
| 24 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 25 | No real hope of doing that , of course . |
| 26 | There 's two ways of doing that , dial them on nine nine nine or ring up the local police control , which for this area is at Newark . |
| 27 | Castigation and exhortation are not the best ways of doing that seeking . |
| 28 | We would n't dare do that , we would n't think of doing that . |
| 29 | The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant . |
| 30 | He could n't get close to her in any way , unless she let him — and she had absolutely no intention of doing that . |