Example sentences of "and doing the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auditions are quite unreal — I mean , how can anyone show what they are about by coming into a room and doing the opening speech of a play ? |
| 2 | I was getting real grown up and that — you know , looking after Satan and doing the shopping and that . |
| 3 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 4 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 5 | Actually , Helen and Geoff are away ( with the children , of course , it 's Spain again this year I think ) , and Mr Davis 's boy Kevin from the house on the corner is keeping an eye on things and doing the garden for them . |
| 6 | Away from Cairo HQ I 'm in sole charge of ninety physicians and their wives on a pre-congress beano — four days of cruising the Nile and doing the sites . |
| 7 | That means actually copying their hand movements or the way they are sitting and doing the same . |
| 8 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |
| 9 | So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before . |
| 10 | Once the whole company have learned the words they are divided into two groups with one side of the room singing and doing the actions to the first verse and the other doing the same for the second . |
| 11 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 12 | He was young and recording in ‘ 49 , and doing the best work possible — the best guitar , the best singing . |
| 13 | ‘ We get kids shaking the maracas and doing the dance at our gigs and that 's cool . |
| 14 | I listened to the Tories achieving their majority while putting away bottles and doing the washing up . |
| 15 | How I enjoy reading Machine Knitting Monthly and doing the competitions . |
| 16 | Not to mention the classes of thirty or more , and all the other sources of frustration that prevent you from delivering the service you should , and doing the job as you would like . |
| 17 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 18 | They reacted by inventing ways of avoiding teachers ' authority , escaping from supervision and doing the things which they valued most : smoking , drinking , swearing and wearing their own variation on the school uniform . |
| 19 | Previously I always had difficulty in arranging a caretaker for the cottage , and often ended up spending the entire weekend gardening and doing the housework . ’ |
| 20 | Sure , but it also goes down to do with erm , matinee and doing the evening performance |
| 21 | They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form . |
| 22 | There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 23 | Yes good , cos everything that we do has to be very careful recorded and taking the photographs and doing the the drawings and sketches that 's one of the ways of recording . |
| 24 | Annabelle 's father insists that any furniture order is delivered the same day , even if it means driving fifty miles and doing the driving and shifting himself . |
| 25 | The babies were developing properly and being well stimulated and doing the right things at the right age and they were really coping well . |
| 26 | And doing the write up . |
| 27 | Y plus cos X , but we ca n't differentiate that straight off without changing and doing the substitution . |
| 28 | His earliest students learned the hard way by helping to erect experimental plant and doing the pipe fitting . |
| 29 | She listened to his advice and bought instead a Welsh pony with the vague idea of attaching it to a trap and doing the shopping in it . |
| 30 | And Murtach was out with the others , harrying the defeated pack on foot and doing the rounds of the surrounding farms . |