Example sentences of "doing [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each test-tube contains the machine tools and the raw material , but so far it is sitting idle , doing nothing because it lacks a blueprint to work from . |
| 2 | looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up . |
| 3 | If many of you are doing something well , but you need to be brought together , our role is to co-ordinate you , and if you 're not doing something and it needs doing , then our role is to initiate it . |
| 4 | Start doing something and it looks as if you have got worries . ’ |
| 5 | Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough . |
| 6 | I thought , we 're only doing it once it 's been commissioned . |
| 7 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 8 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |
| 9 | I saw it actually when I was just doing it and it went how loud it was . |
| 10 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 11 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |