Example sentences of "doing [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be doing little or no harm to the old man . |
| 2 | Odling 's prowess as a lecturer at the Royal Institution was maintained at Oxford where , however , he regarded it as ‘ not etiquette ’ to enter the chemical laboratory , having assistants to teach students and doing little experimental research himself . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm thinking of doing that ! ’ |
| 4 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 5 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 6 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 7 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 8 | Before doing that , it takes the old sample and writes it to DAC1 , so that the array behaves as a 64-character circular buffer which merely delays the samples . |
| 9 | How is it doing that ? |
| 10 | ‘ Good heavens , ’ said Teddy , ‘ I ca n't imagine anyone in the Conservative Association doing that . ’ |
| 11 | By doing that , an advance ticket-buying market is created . |
| 12 | The sort of place that still does double features , which it was doing that bright sunny afternoon . |
| 13 | Of course , there were and are risks in doing that . |
| 14 | I felt a right prannet doing that . |
| 15 | Shit , she said , I would have liked someone doing that if I were him . |
| 16 | I think if one looks at life and says : ‘ If I was doing that job , what are the conditions I would like to work in ? ’ , and then put them into operation , people will probably think it 's about right . |
| 17 | I do n't always succeed in doing that . |
| 18 | It 's a way of saying to yourself , if he really loves me , he 'll stop doing that because I want him to ’ , Roz says . |
| 19 | I do n't mind doing that . |
| 20 | I love doing that . |
| 21 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What on earth are you doing that for ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 24 | There are too many other people doing that , and I feel sad there are n't people making serious statements . |
| 25 | She 'd taken it upon herself to be in charge of merchandising , so she was working and creating little David Bowie dolls and placemats and keychains and all that shit , but she was doing that all by herself . |
| 26 | He could never resist doing that with an attractive woman . |
| 27 | I 'm not going to please you by doing that . |
| 28 | ‘ No use doing that . ’ |
| 29 | But she did n't see herself doing that . |
| 30 | Can you remember him doing that ? |