Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , getting used to the feel of it , it 's alright just talking about it or just doing some calculations and just thinking , oh yeah , I can do that now , but you ca n't beat really getting down and drawing the pictures , and |
| 2 | indeed into the infra red if you were using the , I mean obviously that 's a small scale , probably would n't , erm , so the idea of actually putting some concert notes onto a tape or indeed doing it live , so anyway Simon is away on holiday , after the Festival but I 've arranged Cannon principal and for him and you |
| 3 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 4 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 5 | Well , he 's also actually very smart , so I think that he will do something , but I do n't think that that kind of deco constructivist inspired pastiche of styles , all reactionary , adds much , but of course they probably think that just doing , you know , just being content with typefaces available in nineteen twenty-five ads , but I do n't know . |
| 6 | Surely to God you can lose it some other way than bloody doing that ? |
| 7 | Not doing things is , in general , considerably more difficult than actually doing things . |
| 8 | In other agencies , this role is filled by the account executive , but then there may well be a research specialist who fulfils a service function , advising on market research and its interpretation , and perhaps doing some small-scale research personally . |
| 9 | But in this one you 're right and that makes me right too without having to decide just why I 'm doing this and perhaps doing more than I 'll ever get around to telling you . |
| 10 | A Special Branch Officer said : ‘ It shows they are driving around nationalist areas , consulting electoral register records and basically doing their homework . ’ |
| 11 | But it is clear that , in Japan at least , the machines will soon be down mines , exploring the sea bed , sweeping up nuclear reactors and generally doing more dirty work than ever before |
| 12 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |
| 13 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 14 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 15 | It 's the first chance I 've had of spending a couple of months at home , leading a normal life and just doing things that are interesting to do . |
| 16 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |
| 17 | He was still looking down and still doing a little dance . |
| 18 | Sex would seem to be one , but you will be discussing this and hopefully doing a fair amount of reading on the subject . |
| 19 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 20 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 21 | Back on the mainland the new road from Kyle of Lochalsh , the A.87 , closely follows the shore of Loch Alsh , making unnecessary the extra miles of the old route , and when they meet at Balmacara , the channel of Kyle Rhea is clearly seen across the water , the mainland confronting Skye and both doing their best to support my theory that they were once joined here like Siamese twins . |
| 22 | At the same time , exposure in the press is a powerful weapon against the abuse of authority and wrong doing . |
| 23 | He is sitting up in bed and clearly doing better . |
| 24 | The doctor was worried about brain damage but Andy seemed just as bright and intelligent afterwards as he 'd been before , remembering details from earlier in his childhood and performing above average in the memory tests the doctor gave him and even doing well in school when that started again after the winter break . |
| 25 | Striped shirt said that the position could undoubtedly be improved , with a judicious mixture of playing safe and maybe doing something a bit interesting with Japan or the Far East but of course unfortunately there was n't all that much room for manoeuvre . |
| 26 | The lighting guy was Jules Fisher who was the top guy in New York and then doing straight Broadway musicals , and the crew was fantastic . |
| 27 | If you feel adventurous , try sailing backwards and then doing a nose sink . |
| 28 | Their job is at home , in bed and then doing the cooking . |
| 29 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 30 | ‘ I confess to a touch of male bravado , ’ he admitted ruefully , kissing the lobe of her ear and then doing things with his tongue which made her writhe in delight . |