Example sentences of "[prep] doing [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he will be back on traffic duty after doing that to us . ’ |
| 2 | After doing that to her cooking ! |
| 3 | And after doing that |
| 4 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 5 | After doing some early work inspired by the recapitulation theory , Weismann began to study the behaviour of the reproductive cells under the microscope . |
| 6 | Experience shows that even after doing this , pilots tend to overshoot through being rather too high . |
| 7 | After doing this , you need to structure your material in such a way that the audience will be able to follow the arguments and the drift of your thinking . |
| 8 | After doing this for perhaps ten seconds , the fanners beside the entrance stop simultaneously and fresh air is drawn back into the hive . |
| 9 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 10 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 11 | Instead of doing all that , try ‘ preparing ’ your numbers in the following way : where the top number is the smaller one , add 10 to it and add I to the bottom figure immediately to the left . |
| 12 | write a rude letter the developer of the application and demand that they provide an easier way of doing all this . |
| 13 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |
| 14 | When pupils complain that they ‘ do n't see the point of doing all these ’ , they are often given a remote justification — ‘ you 'll need it when you buy a carpet ’ . |
| 15 | In this review , I 've started from the premise that Excel is capable of doing all the spreadsheety things — like adding columns of figures , applying formulae , and allowing complex calculations based upon built-in functions . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm thinking of doing that ! ’ |
| 17 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 18 | I had no intention of doing that . |
| 19 | ‘ We will introduce the policies that we have undertaken to introduce , and in the course of doing that I hope we can attract a breadth of support to add to our majority and to add to the degree of consensus supporting that majority , ’ he added . |
| 20 | I am very much in favour of doing that and I guess that since this conference has got the environment on its agenda we may hope to hear bright new suggestions of how to avoid dilemmas of that kind . |
| 21 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 22 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 23 | Now that we have the practice of dustmen only collecting plastic bags that you have to place outside your residence , you have to be sure that you are capable of doing that . |
| 24 | I have no intention of doing that . |
| 25 | ‘ We were doing horn-led , jump blues and after five years of doing that stuff , I got tired of it . |
| 26 | The essentials of Taylorism involve the use of work-study engineers to study in fine detail the work an individual is doing ; through detailed analysis develop the most efficient method of doing that work and establish a ‘ fair ’ time for performing particular elements of the task ; develop a specialised staff function whose task is to allocate jobs to individual workers ; and monitor performance against the rated time for the job . |
| 27 | What is the point of doing that when they present precisely the opposite image in real life ? |
| 28 | Mr Major added : ‘ It is necessary to enforce the no-fly zone but there is more than one way of doing that . |
| 29 | He has not been bought to play like Hughes , but to score goals — and he has a real chance of doing that . |
| 30 | I 'm thinking of doing that , actually , with Mark Arm and Eric from Hole . |