Example sentences of "doing [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing that on the victim 's head ‘ leaves your hair in one hell of a mess , so after that we all had camomile shampoos from glamorous coiffeuses in white tunics ’ . |
| 2 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 3 | Erm , the proposals there do , in fact , exceed the capital spend on new starts , and it will therefore need pruning erm , and the proposals that we suggested earlier was that , subject to any comments members may have on individual schemes that are here , and their views on them , we would propose looking at the programme in detail , and bringing it within the guideline figures that have been set , erm , and doing that with the advice of P A G before it goes on to Policy Panel and , and Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 4 | Can you imagine anybody here doing that to the queen ? |
| 5 | Because we were doing that at the beginning of the week , a scare , you could actually get |
| 6 | So you can just get out right now and catch a bus or walk or whatever you want but I 'm not having you doing that in the back of my cab ! |
| 7 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 8 | ‘ I 've spent weeks of my life doing that in the past , and it has n't helped . ’ |
| 9 | I think of that , you would n't catch me doing that in the morning |
| 10 | Must be horrible doing that in the restaurant , last night , last night |
| 11 | The fully comp , the inflation proof plan Let's say we 've got a yearly increase of five per cent inflation is doing that throughout the policy . |
| 12 | You what , well come on we were only doing fifty on the way back |
| 13 | No , look , I , I do n't really feel like doing this at the moment . |
| 14 | Doing this with the English and Tamil examples we will find that : Note that in Tamil is a variant of the /t/ phoneme , but a separate phoneme in English . |
| 15 | I could be doing this with the mouse but . |
| 16 | Commenting on the compensation award , Mrs Taylor said : ‘ I was not doing this for the money . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 18 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 19 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 20 | I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 22 | Some were still doing this on the eve of war in 1336 . |
| 23 | No Canadian jokes , please , but doing this on the nation 's behalf just plays up to stereotypes . |
| 24 | The idea of doing this through the planning department , or through a paper on strategy presented to the board , seems to me to be quite inadequate . |
| 25 | With whom will we be doing this in the year 2004 ? |
| 26 | Twenty-eight percent were putting off-farm income into the farm at the time of the interview whilst a further 28% said they would consider doing this in the future . |
| 27 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 28 | just imagine doing this in the weather that we had , God , up to here , wind and rain |
| 29 | In effect , we are doing some of the work unpaid , with a view to getting more of the benefits when the product sells . ’ |
| 30 | Billie Rudyard , who is co-ordinating the course , explained : ‘ The women will be able to get ‘ hands on ’ experience during the course , by doing some of the work at the new centre . ’ |