Example sentences of "doing this [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , look , I , I do n't really feel like doing this at the moment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could be doing this with the mouse but . |
| 4 | Commenting on the compensation award , Mrs Taylor said : ‘ I was not doing this for the money . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 6 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 10 | Some were still doing this on the eve of war in 1336 . |
| 11 | No Canadian jokes , please , but doing this on the nation 's behalf just plays up to stereotypes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With whom will we be doing this in the year 2004 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 16 | just imagine doing this in the weather that we had , God , up to here , wind and rain |