Example sentences of "doing it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 2 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 3 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 4 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 5 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 6 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 7 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 8 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 9 | You take the kind of view that Freud took of sex , namely that sex is , to quote his term , polymorphously perverse , that sex is n't just a simple question of a regular male er doing it with a regular female . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 12 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 14 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 15 | We knew that sooner or later someone was going to buy it and there comes a point when , if something is going to add value for your shareholders , you should contemplate doing it on a hostile basis . ’ |
| 16 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 17 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 18 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 19 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 20 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 21 | ‘ By doing this , we 're simplifying the process of using a spreadsheet , and doing it in a consistent way . |
| 22 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 23 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 24 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 25 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 26 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
| 27 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 28 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |