Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani found her attentions annoying ; he enjoyed the sport of courting and did not like to be chased . |
| 2 | Secondly , the very act of generating new ways of seeing and doing things is itself non-rational . |
| 3 | Clearly while we do have gliders that spin , it is vital to give pilots enough experience to recognise what is happening and to make the right moves instead of panicking and doing nothing . |
| 4 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 5 | Given the conventional wisdom that any change in tax affairs should be put into effect before 5 April , allied to Bernard 's natural impulsiveness and Laura 's love of buying and doing up old houses , the haste with which the Ashleys moved out of Britain in the spring of 1978 is easily understood . |
| 6 | The highwayman was guilty of an aggravated form of stealing and did not obtain even a voidable title . |
| 7 | It also has serious implications for the professional health of the Authority and its schools , since the belief that getting on is merely a matter of saying and doing what significant others wish to hear and see produces not just disaffection and cynicism but also unthinking conformity and the loss of The professional analysis and debate which are essential to educational progress . |
| 8 | In essence Ward J. found that the physical and mental state of Miss T. on the Sunday afternoon and evening were such that , although she was undoubtedly under the influence of her mother , she was capable of reaching and did reach a decision as to her own treatment . |
| 9 | God , that takes a lot of knowing that does . |
| 10 | It does not necessarily imply essence or totality , but merely a derestriction of the stances of knowing and doing . |
| 11 | Taken together we have a unity of knowing and doing , of " actuality " and " the human interest in self-perfection and fulfilment " : design , in this theoretical sense , as the model of human culture . |
| 12 | They also need play materials like sand , water and dough , and lots of talking and doing . |
| 13 | I do n't know that we can cost each individual item , but the whole work of reglazing and doing the parapet on the west front has cost us £80,000 . |
| 14 | In such cases functional assessment methods are indispensable , and show the value of behavioural methods of working that do not assume consciousness as a fundamental human quality . |
| 15 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 16 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 17 | In Japan , for example , you can get away with saying and doing things when you are drunk that would be unthinkable when sober . |
| 18 | Er so thank you for coming and do n't forget the candidates and and Thank John personally for for for being such a very good er candidate in in this erm hustings , er but do n't leave the candidates to You must fee The people in Salford and Eccles and in er Worsley , who get the Manchester Evening News , Er It 's it 's that they they put lo there 's local issues is n't there ? |
| 19 | Mild temporary disorientation is a common experience in flying and does not normally cause trouble for experienced pilots who learn to disregard the erroneous sensations . |
| 20 | But besides this more obvious point , there are subtler connections between voice and body : Cicely Berry observes that ‘ an introverted and thoughtful person often finds more difficulty in speaking and does not carry the thought through into the physical process of making speech ’ . |
| 21 | Reflect long and hard , I would hope , in the interests of the Conservative Party , before saying or doing anything at all . |
| 22 | It 's well worth approaching the Head of Drama to see if there 's anybody interested in coming and doing their work experience with you . |
| 23 | In its place pragmatism poses the analogy of the craftsman who is involved in making or doing , not by reference to some ideal model , but in accordance with the cumulative product of experience . |
| 24 | The distinction between knowing and doing is by no means clear-cut , but the real problem arises with the third stance identified in Figure 2.1 , that of ‘ being ’ . |
| 25 | on completing that did you notice anyone there , did you hear anyone in the bedroom ? |
| 26 | ‘ Once you are back in England , there are a thousand other things to do : bills to pay , shopping , other sides to living that do n't exist in a place like Antarctica , where there is no telephone , and no other people for thousands of miles . ’ |
| 27 | The Continental C90–16F powerplant being equipped with a vacuum pump , the artificial horizon and DI erect immediately on starting and do not need to be spun up by the act of getting airborne , as happens with similarly-aged aeroplanes fitted with venturis . |
| 28 | The Great Mother aspect of our nature makes us insist on knowing and doing best . |
| 29 | He knows she has been married since graduating but does n't know her present surname or whereabouts . |
| 30 | Y plus cos X , but we ca n't differentiate that straight off without changing and doing the substitution . |