Example sentences of "[vb past] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pretended to do a double-take . |
| 2 | We 've nurtured different varieties , each designed to do a particular job perfectly . |
| 3 | So this particular day at Old Newton , just before he started , he stopped to do the usual : get a good light on his owd pipe . |
| 4 | In February 1974 , Mr Heath lost his overall majority , but remained in office for several days while he tried to do a deal with Mr Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals to keep him in power . |
| 5 | I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day ; it was not much fun . |
| 6 | We loved ‘ Jump ’ — we tried to do a cover version of it . |
| 7 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 8 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 9 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 10 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 11 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 12 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 13 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 14 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 16 | She tried to do the accent , but she could not even get the ‘ daddy ’ right . |
| 17 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 18 | Sir could you do something because ages ago you promised to do a chip-pan fire for us . |
| 19 | X/Open will reported to do the XPG integration work on all COSE specifications . |
| 20 | ‘ I stopped doing the horse charts after my partner died . |
| 21 | I helped do the Sex sign and put all this foam rubber on the walls which were then decorated with quotations from Alexand Trocchi , soft porn spray can graffiti from the ‘ 68 Paris student revolt . |
| 22 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 23 | He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse . |
| 24 | Once in the Essoldo Cinema a lad had moved away when he 'd done no more than offer him a piece of chocolate in the darkness . |
| 25 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 26 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 27 | He 'd done a bunk . |
| 28 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 29 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 30 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |