Example sentences of "doing [pers pn] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is . |
| 2 | Well you do n't want to be doing it on the machine down here do you ? |
| 3 | Well that thing 's pretty easy if you 're doing it on the beach but what if you 're out in the water and it suddenly gusts up . |
| 4 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 5 | ‘ If they do n't do it in training I ca n't see them doing it on the park . ’ |
| 6 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 7 | It , it , looked alright , I , you know doing it on the telly , it did everything they said . |
| 8 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 9 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |