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• accustomed to
• adore for doing
• advise against doing
• aid in doing
• all the more reason for
• argue into doing
• be for
• be no question of (doing) (something)
• be on the edge of (something)
• begin by doing
• bent on doing
• blackmail into doing
• bribe into doing
• burst out doing
• bustle about doing
• cannot help doing
• capable of doing
• catch at
• come within an inch of doing
• constrain from doing
• continue by doing
• do (one's) bidding
• do (one's) damnedest
• do (something) to death
• do a 180 degree turn
• do a disappearing act
• do a vanishing act
• do it up brown
• do the deed
• do the hard yards
• do well by doing good
• do well for (oneself)
• doing okay
• doing okay?
• dream of doing
• embarrass into doing
• end up doing
• feel like doing
• figure on doing
• flirt with the idea of doing
• frighten into doing
• gain by doing
• get around to doing
• get out of doing (something)
• get round to (doing something)
• get the knack of
• given to doing
• go a long way toward doing
• go around doing
• go on with
• hard at
• have (some/any) qualms about (something or someone)
• have a penchant for doing
• have doing
• have no business doing
• hold off doing
• how do you do
• How you doing?
• If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well
• ill-disposed to doing
• inhibit from doing
• instrumental in doing
• intent on doing
• it is a matter of (doing something)
• It will take some doing
• jolly (someone) into (doing) (something)
• jump at the chance (to do something)
• jump at the opportunity (to do something)
• keen on doing
• keep from doing
• know what are doing
• lean toward doing
• leap at the chance (to do something)
• left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
• left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the
• lose no time (in) doing (something)
• make a day of doing
• make a living from
• make a point of doing
• make heavy going of (something)
• make overtures about doing
• nature's way of (doing something)
• need doing
• not have a hope in hell (of doing something)
• not let catch doing
• nothing doing
• Nothing doing!
• nudge (someone) into (doing) (something)
• on the edge of (something)
• on the point of doing
• on the verge
• persist in doing
• prevent from doing
• reduced to doing
• religious about doing
• rope into doing
• see the point in (doing) (something)
• set about doing
• stoop to doing
• stop from doing
• stop short of doing
• take a stab at (doing) something
• take doing
• take some doing
• take the liberty of doing
• talk out of doing
• tease into doing
• the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
• the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• there is no doing
• there is no harm in (someone's) doing (something)
• think before doing
• think nothing of doing
• torment into doing
• up and about
• up to doing
• What do you think you are doing here?
• what's the use (of doing something)
• whip into doing
• with a view to doing
• within an ace of doing something
• without so much as doing
• wouldn't dream of doing