Example sentences of "[pron] do that " in BNC.

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1 Show up the folly of I feel this so I do that .
2 You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’
3 Mr Jackson tells me to shove my dirty clothes in a placky bag , so I do that .
4 When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see .
5 You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance .
6 ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action .
7 You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’
8 ‘ I 'll look at the papers — at the pictures — for about half an hour and drink the water : I do that religiously , it cleanses the soul . ’
9 ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it !
10 And if I do that , how shall I any longer be the red ? ’
11 Why , I do that already ! ’
12 I do that sometimes at night , when I need to think . ’
13 I do that a lot — get the down beat going . ’
14 ‘ Sometimes , ’ he admits , ‘ I hear things that sound so ridiculously like something I do that it 's not funny . ’
15 Encouraging people to tell me what I do that affects them
16 You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there .
17 The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past .
18 I do that all day long actually , because I love music so much .
19 Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " .
20 you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of
21 So I wonder whilst I do that er if you would just take note of the safety precautions here .
22 But there 's a lot of incidents that I do that I just go out , clear it up and I do n't even report a lot of them because you 're only making paperwork for yourself .
23 If I do that , the Company does n't have to know I 've been interfacing data when I should n't .
24 They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company .
25 Erm I freely admit that I do that myself .
26 Right up through there , and tell me if I do that oh ?
27 And then we did a jungle trek and erm the guide said if I do that you 've come near , if I do that you have to go away , if I do that you 've got to quickly climb a tree
28 And then we did a jungle trek and erm the guide said if I do that you 've come near , if I do that you have to go away , if I do that you 've got to quickly climb a tree
29 And then we did a jungle trek and erm the guide said if I do that you 've come near , if I do that you have to go away , if I do that you 've got to quickly climb a tree
30 if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find .
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