Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] doing [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night . |
| 2 | He wanted to know if I was interested in doing something on it in the magazine . |
| 3 | He said a small group of people who were interested in doing something about the issue would be interested to hear from people who had views or experiences on the subject . |
| 4 | Both are interested in doing everything in their power to increase production of Chlorohydra eggs . |
| 5 | They are interested in doing it in certain terms . |
| 6 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
| 7 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 8 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 9 | From a moral point of view , however , I feel it 's infinitely preferable to doing it with someone you know , as at least you 're not playing with another person 's emotions . |
| 10 | I 'm quite weary of doing it with a , with a full set and everything it 's , it 's , it 's , awfully tiring for taking the system |
| 11 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 12 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 13 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 14 | If I want to start an affair with someone , I 'm perfectly capable of doing it without your assistance ! ’ |
| 15 | Although I ca n't see Beryl clambering over scaffolding with a .32 tucked in her pants , she 'd be quite capable of doing it by proxy . |
| 16 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 17 | Well , even even people who perhaps are not so experienced in doing it in their personal lives can be influenced I think , especially when they are relating to children , to perhaps become more sensitive to that and the children in their care . |
| 18 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 19 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
| 20 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |