Sentence examples for doing a spell from inspiring English sources

There's also the pull of the taboo, of being a woman who does what she's not supposed to: "It feels incredible to use all the aspects of being a woman which the dominant culture considers to be signs of weakness, like emotional sensitivity or a menstrual cycle, as tools when you are giving a reading or doing a spell," says Marty Windahl, proprietor of Tarotscopes.

The erstwhile star of such Merchant Ivory costume dramas as Howards End and A Room with a View enthuses about her action scenes in Deathly Hallows Part 1. "When you're doing a spell in real life, you've got this bit of wood and you're shaking it around," she explains with child-like glee.

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One woman who did a spell in prison carved herself a very lifelike dildo out of a piece of rubber.

How does it work when people come in asking for you to do a spell? A. People come in and ask us to do a spell and we say, "No, but we can sell you the supplies to do it yourself".

He did a spell working with an outreach team going into secondary schools to promote the military, but felt "conflicted" about being involved in recruitment.

I did a spell in rehab much later and I hated the idea that I was there because of my childhood, or some incident of bullying at school.

And the Europeans and Americans are making poor use of those people: another study shows that staff who do a spell abroad take longer to move up the organisation than people who stay at headquarters.

He returned home in 1955 to the Ministry of Labour, where he did a spell at the office that supervised Nigerian workers in Fernando Po, then in the colony of Spanish Guinea.

He sold his stake in it nine years ago when he began working for the state, but it has done well since, winning contracts with the main state channels, including an exclusive one with RTR, where Mr Lesin also did a spell as deputy director.

Investment banks expect long-term loyalty, notes an MBA who did a spell in banking, whereas students see them as "a stepping stone into private equity or a hedge fund".This is one reason why there has been a revival in business-school graduates' interest in working as consultants.