Example sentences of "[prep] doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could extend student loans to part timers in higher education without primary legislation and have not ruled out doing so , but again , cost is a factor . |
| 2 | That was the end of his Test career until the present tour of England , for which he was chosen after doing well as an allrounder in Pakistan domestic cricket . |
| 3 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 4 | Winning elections , and governing well after doing so , are two different activities . |
| 5 | But , after doing so , the surviving poor devils were discarded like a bunch of rags . |
| 6 | Lawrence said : ‘ I need cover but there is no question that Ian will stay in the side on Saturday after doing so well against Leeds . ’ |
| 7 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 8 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 9 | He added , however : ‘ We were n't happy with the way we started the season and although people will make us favourites to win this one after doing so well against Derry last season , all that means nothing . |
| 10 | But even in remote situations I would strongly advise against this , after doing as much in a cottage in Appin only to be greeted by the landlord who had popped in to see if we were alright . |
| 11 | ‘ I make no secret , ’ said Samuel suddenly , who had obviously been considering doing just that , ‘ that I disliked the fellow . |
| 12 | For number one , they could start considering doing away with the regulator , and having an elected body to do regulating over the utilities . |
| 13 | If Labour were to stand only in areas where it has a chance of doing well , it would have to withdraw from a swathe of constituencies in Tory heartlands . |
| 14 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 15 | To maximise Milan 's chances of doing well in the Italian league , the national cup and the European Cup at the same time , Mr Berlusconi has built up a squad of players that can field two top-rate sides . |
| 16 | They know that there will be subjects to choose between at the right moment ( or , sometimes , subjects for which their children will not be chosen ) and they associate the chances of doing well at , for instance , GCSE level in mathematics with being good at maths in the primary school . |
| 17 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 18 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 19 | Here are some ways of doing just that . |
| 20 | However , making a decorated and framed picture of the sheet music is a marvellous way of doing just that , and has the added benefit of being a very unusual and original idea for a present . |
| 21 | It was one thing to talk tritely about holding life in our hands ; it was a very different matter to find oneself on the point of doing just that . |
| 22 | I do not believe , first , that there was any less crime under a Labour Government — in fact crime increased under every Labour Government I can remember — or , secondly , that encouraging people to better themselves , to make decisions for their lives and to improve their economic position has anything whatever to do with dishonest methods of doing just that . |
| 23 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 24 | It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced . |
| 25 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
| 26 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 27 | Lurgan made it past Bangor 's total of with just three balls to spare , Craig Irwin 's innings of doing most of the damage . |
| 28 | I have more than once thought of doing away with myself . |
| 29 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 30 | So there is the option of doing both the walking tour or the bus tour . |