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Example sentences for "doing this"

  • In doing this, they face the direction in which they are progressing, and their progress is slow.

  • Previously to doing this he has told his client of certain possible directions in which the implement may fall, and intimated that, whichever that may be, it will be the direction in which the lost article must be sought.

  • There are several ways of doing this, one of which we here illustrate.

  • There are several methods of doing this; but from all we can learn from the most experienced trappers, the following is the most successful.

  • In doing this, both the higher scientific standpoint and that of prosaic utility were kept in view.

  • Is it possible to introduce the institutions of economic justice everywhere without prejudice to inherited rights and vested interests; and, if possible, what are the best means of doing this?

  • His object in doing this is to have Foot-an'-half, who is his ally, set tasks that are beyond the ability of the boy chosen as leader.

  • If any one dispute your power of doing this, you have no more to do than to lay one ball down upon the table, turn yourself, and take it up with your other hand.

  • In doing this, gentle and good thoughts came upon her, and she reflected what a nice present this pretty bird would make to her sister Alizon on her return from the merry-making, and how pleased she should feel to give it to her.

  • In doing this, however, they themselves had sustained considerable injury.

  • Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this.

  • All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.

  • Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.

  • If He hath, and is doing this, He hath, and is knocking at thy heart.

  • When he succeeds in doing this, the handkerchief is taken from his eyes (if one is used).

  • When one succeeds in doing this, all run except the one into whose box the ball fell.

  • In doing this, he must turn it away from himself, so that the other players see it first; the next player then does the same.

  • If they succeed in doing this, Charlie remains in the ring and the verse is repeated, etc.

  • The mode of doing this is the same as in all other cases of the cultivation of moral sentiments in children, and that is by the influence over them of sympathy with those they love.

  • But when she thoroughly understands and feels that her children are not to be expected to submit their will to hers, except so far as she forms in them the habit of doing this by special training, the battle is half won.

  • In doing this, we struck on a second branch of the Castlereagh, leading W.

  • I determined to relieve my own mind by getting the animals into a place of safety, as soon as possible; and, as the only effectual way of doing this was to retire upon the nearest fresh water, I resolved at once to do so.

  • The honest poor man, by frugality and industry, can in any part of our country acquire a competence for himself and his family, and in doing this he feels that he eats the bread of independence.

  • It is true that on a sudden emergency of this character the President would direct any armed force in the vicinity to march to their relief, but in doing this he would act upon his own responsibility.

  • Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this.

  • Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.

  • The manner of doing this is to wrap a piece of paper on the outside of the finished armature ring and place it through the opening in the field, then slip the bearings on the ends of the shaft.

  • The accompanying sketch shows a simple and effective method of doing this.

  • In doing this, the handkerchief and the rod are pushed into the wand, as shown in D.

  • There are three ways of doing this: First, the photograph can be traced on tissue paper and then retraced on the paraffin surface.

  • He must get rid of the Major, and there could be no way of doing this at once so easy and so little open to observation as marriage.

  • Perhaps she was rather slow in doing this, but the greatness of the subject had been the cause.

  • But in doing this he failed to hide the attempt even from her, and she broke down under it.

  • He felt that in doing this he must begin with himself.

  • In doing this, they made one stretch so far in our direction, in the hope of tacking in their enemies wakes, that I saw they would probably speak us.

  • There is one way by which I might ascertain whether you were old enough to know that this was wrong, and that is by asking those who have refrained from doing this, because they supposed it would be wrong, to rise.

  • There are three distinct ways of doing this.

  • They learn the meaning of words, not by definitions, but by their connection in the sentences in which they hear them; and, by long practice, they acquire an astonishing facility of doing this.

  • The particular methods of doing this demand a little attention.

  • There is but one way of doing this, and that is raising the personal characters and attainments of the teachers themselves.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doing this" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against slavery; blue flame; cooking utensils; doing business; doing here; doing justice; doing nothing; doing right; doing something; doing well; doing what; doing work; each parish; empirical knowledge; fair princess; fine view; fossil species; one thousand five hundred; presentation copy; sharp knife; then stood; times past; true gentleman; will punish; would bring; would you