Example sentences of "doing [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 2 | Envy because we ca n't do them and horror because they might start doing them to us . |
| 3 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 4 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 5 | Mrs from Darlaston says , they are victimizing the men who are working erm need to chase those men who are doing nothing for their families . |
| 6 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 7 | he comes round , and just say no , I 'm not doing nothing for you . |
| 8 | And he says , he says er he says I will not move my car and I do n't get told anything , you know , I 'm not doing nothing for you , you do n't belong in this country and all this stuff |
| 9 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 10 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 11 | ‘ But I ca n't see Philip sitting back and doing nothing about it . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , large supermarkets are defying the law by opening on Sundays and abusing society in almost everything they do , but we are doing nothing about it . |
| 13 | ‘ Now , if the murder took place at about three forty-five p.m. , as I believe it did , why do we find Kemp 's wife , Marion , doing nothing about it ? |
| 14 | Not another two years , I think that was the first of January ninety five , it 's actually one year , and it 's not a question of doing nothing about it . |
| 15 | Doing nothing with it . |
| 16 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 17 | They do n't seem to be doing owt to it , do they ? |
| 18 | Well , I do but our Karen do n't , so I 'm not doing one for mesen . |
| 19 | No , they 're doing one on their own , no , we 'll come back to that later on . |
| 20 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |
| 21 | ‘ People like to feel that they 're doing something with their savings . |
| 22 | And I was aware that they were doing something with my fire . |
| 23 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 24 | Would you recommend that I got rid of some of it then by paying my poll tax or doing something with it or use the money to live off ? |
| 25 | And there are certain situations as if you ca n't have a photograph , in a sense , there 's no point in it , because it , in itself , it 's a rather dry little article , but if you can have a fun photograph with somebody doing something with it , that gives you another dimension , another possibility of a hook , another bit of scope for , for , for getting something into the media . |
| 26 | This principle is sometimes found expressed in the language that he is ‘ doing something with his estate ’ … but it really reflects a rule of common sense on the exigency of busy lives . |
| 27 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 28 | I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it . |
| 29 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 30 | I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ? |