Example sentences of "doing it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 2 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 3 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 4 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 5 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 6 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 7 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 8 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 10 | All the time Frodo and Sam are spinning another , and doing it with the same chronological overlapping . |
| 11 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 12 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 13 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 14 | I 'm doing it through the four years of the course . |
| 15 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 16 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 17 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 18 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 19 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 20 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
| 22 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 23 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
| 24 | 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 . |