Example sentences of "doing it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 3 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 4 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 6 | Imagine still doing it at forty ! ’ |
| 7 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |
| 8 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
| 10 | doing it at the back of their , at the back . |
| 11 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 12 | If you go for a ten year fix , Bank of Scotland are doing it at about eight point nine nine . |
| 13 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 14 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 15 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 16 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 17 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 18 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 19 | company doing it at the Haymarket ! |
| 20 | No he 's doing it at home I think . |
| 21 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
| 22 | still be doing it at Christchurch 's till |
| 23 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 24 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 25 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |