Example sentences of "[conj] doing the " in BNC.

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1 She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending .
2 Or it may show its need to excel by jumping obstacles better than other horses , or doing the perfect workout in the show ring or dressage arena , producing the most fantastic extended trot when shown in hand , or behaving perfectly with a beginner rider on its back .
3 ‘ However , if the circumstances arose , we would change our roles and my husband is completely competent at sewing things on or doing the ironing .
4 The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans .
5 There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph .
6 There was a price agreement for a specific task , either coal-getting or doing the necessary stonework in preparation , and Trist et al. ( 1963 ) observe that management dealt with workers through the union to a far greater extent than in most industries .
7 or doing the selecting for courses or for jobs and so on .
8 Granny said it gave her someone to talk to when she was baking or doing the housework and Grandad liked to take Morag to the farm next door to show her the hens and pigs and the other animals who lived there .
9 Could we go back and perhaps you tell me , erm what it felt like , for example cooking a meal or doing the washing in a Nissan hut and the difference of when you came in to Chipping Field
10 I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago .
11 Cos they were probably putting buttons on , or doing the last stitching
12 There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance .
13 If you bought that many bonds then you would effectively be losing around £3.50 a week in interest , not much more than doing the pools .
14 This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises .
15 Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming .
16 After collecting all the cash , which is sometimes more difficult and more time consuming than doing the ride , I am pleased to report that the ‘ 24 hr Tour de Matthey ’ has raised a total of £2,800 which is great news , a big thank you to everyone who contributed .
17 It 's more effective than doing the research at the coast .
18 One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear .
19 In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc .
20 Auditions are quite unreal — I mean , how can anyone show what they are about by coming into a room and doing the opening speech of a play ?
21 I was getting real grown up and that — you know , looking after Satan and doing the shopping and that .
22 At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor !
23 He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions .
24 Actually , Helen and Geoff are away ( with the children , of course , it 's Spain again this year I think ) , and Mr Davis 's boy Kevin from the house on the corner is keeping an eye on things and doing the garden for them .
25 Away from Cairo HQ I 'm in sole charge of ninety physicians and their wives on a pre-congress beano — four days of cruising the Nile and doing the sites .
26 That means actually copying their hand movements or the way they are sitting and doing the same .
27 Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating .
28 So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before .
29 Once the whole company have learned the words they are divided into two groups with one side of the room singing and doing the actions to the first verse and the other doing the same for the second .
30 They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’
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