Example sentences of "doing [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 2 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 3 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 4 | I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree that what we are doing through the national curriculum , and especially in the testing of seven , 11 , 14 and 16-year-olds , will ensure not only that we can monitor progress on standards , but that pupils who are falling behind will be given the assistance that they need to improve . |
| 5 | What is the Minister doing about a comprehensive fuel policy ? |
| 6 | As Fleming shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin with Chain and Florey in 1945 , one may reasonably ask what he was doing during the critical years 1938 to 1942 . |
| 7 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 8 | I should imagine that Irene Charial might be in the habit of dropping in on her uncle occasionally and he would n't want her saying , ‘ Whatever are you doing with a spare radio in your cabin , Uncle ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When I first met Stephen it was all , ‘ what 's she doing with a young man like that ? ’ |
| 10 | If you want to know how you 're doing with the other person , you need to ask . |
| 11 | Whatever he was doing with the extra money , he was not settling accounts with those he had defrauded . |
| 12 | Doing up an 18th-century house is small beer compared to the Stewarts ' next project . |
| 13 | are going to be doing under the new contract think you could only learn from that really . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's a nice guy like me doing in a dirty job like this ? |
| 15 | She even hummed along with the radio as she rattled down the motorway , something she had n't felt like doing in a long time . |
| 16 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 17 | ‘ So what are you doing in a subsidiary personality , getting drunk ? ’ |
| 18 | Apparently what they 're doing in the private sector taking er ooh what do you call them ? |
| 19 | What you be doing in the new year Sarah ? |
| 20 | They left it late last year despite their money , but look what they 're doing in the Premier League . ’ |
| 21 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 22 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 23 | ‘ What was he doing in the Little Vestry , then ? |
| 24 | Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory . |
| 25 | By ignoring concealed households , it is in fact not seeking to house its people , and is in fact not doing what in fact it says it should be doing within the explanatory memorandum . |
| 26 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 27 | Men and women , seated on the open top decks of newfangled motorized omnibuses , had elevated views of what the bright morning sun was doing to the muddy Thames . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you doing to the neural net , Doctor ? ’ |
| 29 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 30 | What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’ |