Example sentences of "doing [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then I take it all erm , I start doing them regularly , I think it 's probably a tax you know some for the tax that they did , spend a lot of money |
| 2 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 3 | You can plan grand lectures , but in the end you really do learn by doing them over and over again , adjusting this or changing that . |
| 4 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 5 | Clare began to feel a foolish kind of affection for the umbrella that was doing them both such sterling service . |
| 6 | Each time I had to stop and spend about thirty seconds doing them up , which destroyed the rhythm of the afternoon . |
| 7 | And doing them up |
| 8 | Well they 're only for sides , you know , I 'm , I 'm doing them like er |
| 9 | so you , that was , you started doing them in about nineteen eighty three ? |
| 10 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 11 | Erm , want to come through into this room and we 'll sit you down doing them now . |
| 12 | You relate as two real adults who probably share values and attitudes , enjoy many of the same things , doing them together and who care about the well-being and happiness of one another . |
| 13 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 14 | No , I 'm not doing them too small . |
| 15 | I always regret doing them very much , I must say . |
| 16 | have n't been doing them recently but when I 've been able to get a , er an evening away that 's what I |
| 17 | He was transferred in 1853 to the prefectorate of the Department of the Seine , which included Paris , and he remained there until 1870 ; for the whole of this period he remained the Emperor 's man , charged with executing his master 's projects and doing them quickly . |
| 18 | The tests are relatively simple but nobody thought of doing them before . |
| 19 | Are they doing them though . |
| 20 | I 'll tell , I 'll tell you what that 's , I think that 's what 's doing me up , it 's not being out of work it 's going out , it 's the things that I mean normally |
| 21 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 22 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 23 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 24 | Yeah I know , but your blood pr I mean they did d they were doing you very well but blood pressure does tend to rise , as you get older |
| 25 | When listening to records , or to a band at a gig , even if you are checking out what the bass player is doing you still hear the whole thing . |
| 26 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 27 | she get ninety eight quid plus her own money what she earned doing her round |
| 28 | Be nice in the summer and just put instead of doing her up in all these great big snowsuits , you know ? |
| 29 | Quite amazing how the Queen Mother keeps on doing her so many public engagements . |
| 30 | Mr Evans was flaming mad , not with Mrs Gotobed but with Hepzibah for ‘ doing him out of his rights ' . |