Example sentences of "[to-vb] doing [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , the reasoning component of the system will be more expensive and less reliable than the linguistic components , and constraints between anaphors can sometimes allow the system to avoid doing any non-linguistic reasoning at all . |
| 2 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 3 | However , care should be taken not to use a professional counsellor as a " fixer " who enables one to avoid doing any real work of one 's own . |
| 4 | Now as she was getting inquiries for further ahead , it was possible to plan doing this . |
| 5 | have to start doing that . |
| 6 | I 'm going to start doing some outside work again next week , thank God . ’ |
| 7 | And even where they have the technology capabilities to start doing this there is clearly little point in replacing an existing system with a new one which simply does the same thing . |
| 8 | You may have to consider doing some pruning . |
| 9 | I find this a bit tedious to keep doing this , so I tend to you know , slip up sometimes |
| 10 | Well I 'll have to keep doing these pools . |
| 11 | I used to love doing this . |
| 12 | we 're not actually going to finish doing that until twenty twenty which will be er nearly forty years on really |
| 13 | He seemed to know how to do everything that came with running a resort and he did n't seem to mind doing any of it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've told him to stop doing all these dreary panel shows , ’ Julian Clary tells me . |
| 15 | And how difficult is it to stop doing that ? |
| 16 | If for example you 've got a problem with productivity in your patch , erm because of the , the reasons we 've talked about , it does mean that perhaps you need to say to whoever has been , is off and doing other projects that they 'll have to stop doing that until you 've got the productivity up till you can release them back again . |
| 17 | As soon as she starts laying herself , however , she has to stop doing this . |
| 18 | And what was the point at which you thought I want to stop doing this ? |