Example sentences of "doing [indef pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 2 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 3 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 4 | Work is a good deal less boring than doing nothing at all . ’ |
| 5 | The measure ( Beasley et al. , 1989 ) samples how much time the individual handicapped person spends in various categories of behaviour : for example , time spent in leisure activities ; persona or self help type of skills ; using complex equipment ; other practical tasks or domestic chores ; work or formal educational activities ; going for walks ; in seclusion or time spent doing nothing at all . |
| 6 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 7 | Er , I 'm in the view , that this er , Environment Department is at the moment , is doing nothing at all , anything that 's happened so far . |
| 8 | ‘ She was doing nothing at all to help this baby in such distress . |
| 9 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
| 10 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 11 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Reflect long and hard , I would hope , in the interests of the Conservative Party , before saying or doing anything at all . |
| 13 | So before we start doing anything at all we actually do some identification of trainees . |
| 14 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 15 | on the ar , we well you know we 've paid for his education since he was seven because he was n't doing anything at primary school ! |