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Sentences starting with doing

Doing so he whispered in his ear: "In the name of Allah, tell Soada I died fighting the Dervishes! [11]
Doing so he saw the watch start up from the capstan where he had been resting, and walk towards him. [11]
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. [6]
Doing so he concealed a weapon quickly as Dupont stooped to pick a coal for his pipe from the blaze. [11]
Doing good to any but himself never comes to his mind. [11]
Doing good 'irregularly'? [11]

Sentences ending with doing

Yet what are you and the wise treasurer doing? [10]
When a realistic writer like Zola surprises his reader into a kind of knowledge he never thought of wishing for, he sometimes harms him more than he has any idea of doing. [6]
I thought, it would amuse her, too, when I went back at night, if I told her what she had been doing. [11]
What is there worth doing? [11]
In the pause which followed he said: "It was none of my doing. [11]
She remembered that, when her father and others had slept so long after the prairie fire, she had waked them once to give them drink and a little food, and they did not breathe so heavily as he was doing. [11]
You don't know what you're doing. [11]
Tell me of what you are thinking and what doing. [11]
Do you know what you are doing? [9]
And you know what you are doing? [9]

Short sentences using doing

He's doing what you've done. [11]
You are doing well. [5]
Who was doing this? [2]
What's he doing round here? [8]
Was he doing right? [9]
Are we doing right? [11]
What's he doing out here? [11]
Me doing Dr. Jonathan harm? [9]
You are doing it elegantly. [5]
I know what I'm doing. [11]

Sentences containing doing two or more times

But you--where are you going, where are you coming from, what have you been doing since you left me, what had you been doing before? [12]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
I don't know why I tell you this, as you're not my client now, but I go about the world doing good, Mr. Mazarine--only doing good. [11]
He had come to realise that there are several sorts of happiness, but that all may be divided into two kinds: the happiness of doing good to ourselves, and that of doing good to others. [11]
Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
I have made the quoted remark myself, at one time and another, but I was not doing it to flatter the reader; I was merely doing it to save work. [5]
We know also that there is a habit, physical and moral, of doing right as well as doing wrong. [4]
We must constantly show the public what we are doing, or they will believe we are doing nothing. [5]
Then it was said that there was to be a new marriage; that the Church would let it be so, doing and undoing, and doing again. [11]
We took first-class passage, not because we wished to attract attention by doing a thing which is uncommon in Europe but because we could make our journey quicker by so doing. [5]

More example sentences with the word doing in them

I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
I hope that your son is doing well. [9]
If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
What are the young men of the villages and the cities doing meantime? [4]
It's just like you, thinking he's doing her a good turn. [9]
He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
Any one but you would say that the man determined it, and that in doing it he exercised Free Will. [5]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
Mr. Bass, have you ever done anything the pleasure of doing which was pay enough, and to spare? [9]
But what are you doing, back in Foxon Falls? [9]
Then what were you doing with it? [9]
But what are you doing on our premises at night, sword in hand? [10]
I feel as you do about it; but I wish I felt easier about him--sure, that is, that we're not doing wrong to let him keep on talking so. [8]
With apparent absent-mindedness, yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, Prince Vasili did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. [2]
Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels and all you have been doing on your estates. [2]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
Both were slightly wounded, doing well. [6]
I wish you would tell me all about what you are doing at Alderbank. [6]
Believe me, I would start a resurrection it would do you more good to look at than the next one will, if you go on the way you are doing now. [5]
Not that he would break with it exactly; it was not necessary to do that; but he would find something to do, something worth a man's doing, or, at any rate, some occupation that should tax his time and his energies. [4]
Lord Mallow, you would be doing as great a crime as Mr. Dyck Calhoun ever committed, or could commit, if you put this order into actual fact. [11]
What was young Worthington doing in Brampton, and his father in the West on that railroad business? [9]
The only thing worth doing in this world is to live life according to one's convictions--and one's heart. [11]
If you're doing work you like, that you've got an interest in, and that's some use, you don't need religion (she pauses). [9]
But would the work he had been doing all be finished then? [11]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
As to General Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. [7]
He muttered, "I wonder what's the matter; I don't know what her mouth's doing, but I think her shoulders are swearing. [5]
Chambers could dive without inconvenience, and was fond of doing it. [5]
Shall I part with the copyright for a downright sum of money, which I understand some prefer doing, or publish on shares, or take a percentage on the sales? [6]
Hilary's grown up with that way of doing things, and in the old days there was no other way. [9]
I plied Cockle with questions as to what they purposed doing with me, but he was wont to turn sulky, and would answer me not a word. [9]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
The next generation will be pretty much what they choose to make it; and what are they doing for the elevation of young men? [4]
Peter Erwin, of whom we caught a glimpse doing an errand for Uncle Tom in the bank. [9]
Two doctors--one of whom was pale and trembling--were silently doing something to this man's other, gory leg. [2]
If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are) have not ridden him half to death every day themselves, you can depend upon it they have been doing the same thing by proxy, by clandestinely hiring him out. [5]
Say rather: Fool, who at last has succeeded in doing something rational," he replied joyfully. [10]
Years ago, just when the cotton-mills and the linen- mills were doing well, they came over with their English legislation, and made it hard going. [11]
You feel that what you're doing is appreciated. [5]
Tell me now what you were doing all yesterday. [10]
Let me ask what you intend doing with these productions, Mr.---rr Poplins. [6]
You don't realize what you are doing. [9]
When she confessed what withheld her from doing so, he at first tried to convince her by opposing reasons, but usually strength to continue the interchange of thought soon failed him. [10]
You don't think what we are doing and going to do here. [6]
He told them what the Supreme Lord of Inde was doing. [5]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
It was wicked, what she was doing, but she gloried in it; and even the sight, in burning red letters, of Gruber's Cafe failed to bring on a revulsion by its association with her sister Lise. [9]
Society is not what it was in your mother's day, who knew these people or their mothers, and took an interest in what they were doing. [9]
Davy is doing what it was in Benn's heart to do. [11]
I don't know what is behind these things you are doing, but you'll be sorry for it when it is too late. [11]
He'll ask me what I'm doing, and I'll tell him you went upstairs at half-past four and haven't come down. [9]
Well, without noticing what I was doing, I took hold of the knob, and open comes the door! [5]
Tell him, therefore, what I propose doing. [10]
They are doing what I must do; and I wish you would tell me what to see. [4]
He didn't know what he was doing. [11]
Before I realized what he was doing, Nick, instead of retracing his steps towards the house, started forward. [9]
That was it.--But what had he been doing to get his head into such a state?--had he really committed an excess? [6]
Well, mon cher, what are you doing personally? [2]
All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
Pale, frightened people were doing something around the workman. [2]
Some of them were digging, others were wheeling barrowloads of earth along planks, while others stood about doing nothing. [2]
The old couple were delirious, and were doing strange things. [5]
Of course we were all distracted in a moment--everybody was flying everywhere, and nobody doing anything worth anything. [5]
If ever woman went about doing good in an unselfish spirit it was she. [4]
She knew quite well that she was doing a large and generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I couldn't--my mouth refused. [5]
One might as well reason with a bee as to the form of his cell, or with an oriole as to the construction of his swinging nest, as try to stir these creatures from their own way of doing their own work. [6]
Victoria heard how well Mrs. Jenney's oldest son was doing in Springfield, and how the unmarried daughter was teaching, now, in the West. [9]
They were very well done, but he hated doing them after the first two or three, and had to be punched up for them by Fulkerson, who did not cease to prize them, and who never failed to punch him up. [8]
In this hot weather walking would be quite out of the question, either for you or for her; and I know she would persist in doing it if left to herself, and arrive half killed. [14]
So long as we remain alive we are not safe from doing things which, however righteously and honorably intended, can wreck our repute and extinguish our friendships. [5]
Once or twice we have found him admitting still more objectionable articles into his materia medica; in doing which, I am sorry to say that he could plead grave and learned authority. [3]
When we judged we had gone half a mile, we momently expected to see the guide; but no, he was not visible anywhere; neither was he waiting, for the rope was still moving, consequently he was doing the same. [5]
We suffer because we feel that we are useless, that other persons are doing our work. [9]
He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as these, but he cares not how much he misrepresents us if he can gain a few votes by so doing. [7]
There were two ways of doing it. [11]
There are some ways of doing a thing that are as good as others which other people don't happen to think about, or don't have the knack of succeeding in, if they do happen to think of them. [5]
Give me the water that shall be a well of water springing up to everlasting life, that I thirst not in the fever of doing. [11]
He said he wasn't doing anything, just feeding his cow a bit: he wouldn't make me the least trouble in the world. [4]
I began by washing windows, and doing odd jobs for the professors' wives. [9]
My next venture was with a machine for doing something or other. [5]
He fancied he was very deep in doing this. [4]
Her first thought was that she had been doing herself a harm by some deadly means or other. [6]
The young Seigneur was serious enough about it, and more than once, irritated and perturbed, he sought Madame Chalice; but she gave him no encouragement, remarking coldly that Monsieur Valmond probably knew very well what he was doing, and was weighing all consequences. [11]
This large sum was reached by assuming that he was doing service at several different places, and in several different capacities in the same place, all at the same time. [7]
When its editor was nominated for public printer, I declined to vote for him, and stated that at some time I might give my reasons for doing so. [7]
The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong. [2]
Once, while I was hungrily taking in one of these surprises, and doing my best to get all I possibly could of it while it should last, I was interrupted by a young and care-free voice: "You're an American, I think--so'm I. [5]
The thing he was going to do was hopelessly obvious, but the doing of it was Jean Jacques' own; and it was not obvious; and that perhaps was genius after all. [11]
A Dominican friar was ever in his chamber, telling the rosary for him and doing him other ghostly service, especially in the night season, when he was haunted by terrible restlessness. [10]
I supposed I was doing you a benevolence; but I begin to think that I am the party that wants a favor done. [5]
I said he was doing well for a person out of practice. [5]
Al'mah thought she was doing us both a good turn. [11]
The third, I was doing tin roofs; the forth, common signs; the fifth, statuary to stand before cigar shops. [5]
She thought she was doing right, and they might blame her or not, but her aunt would see that she could not permit any distinction to be set up between her and her husband, etc. [4]
And while he was doing M. de Beausset the honor of breakfasting with him, they heard, as Napoleon had anticipated, the rapturous cries of the officers and men of the Old Guard who had run up to see the portrait. [2]
My new jailer was a man of no feeling that I could see, yet of no violence or cruelty; one whose life was like a wheel, doing the eternal round. [11]
The entry stove warmed it but imperfectly, and she looked pinched and cold, for the evenings were still pretty sharp, and the old house let in the chill blasts, as old houses are in the habit of doing. [6]
Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover. [10]

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