Example sentences of "[vb past] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I was there er , I left yesterday afternoon , I mean , I had to go in early and we had erm an auction and I helped do that . |
| 2 | saw do that Amy . |
| 3 | Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull . |
| 4 | Well I did do all my housework , you 'd never know I 'd done it . |
| 5 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 6 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 7 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 8 | Yeah , put that we did do that . |
| 9 | Were you able in other words to go round and talk to people to get their answers and record your answers on their grid , if you think yes you did do that , sign your name now , in section one , where it says survey . |
| 10 | As I say I , a couple of years ago an authority did do that , it swapped . |
| 11 | I did do that . |
| 12 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 13 | You did do that well ! |
| 14 | nothing to stop the defendants if they er wish to do so pursuing , preparing their counterclaim , erm , but the one thing it can not do , even if the English law for example set- off would otherwise permit it , er is to , would , would be to prevent the , the collection of funds , because if the English law was set off and did do that , that would be running contrary to the directive |
| 15 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
| 16 | she did do that , what they get for it erm |
| 17 | I did do that . |
| 18 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 19 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 20 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 21 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 22 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I did do some . |
| 23 | Of course , we did do some elementary botany … ’ |
| 24 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 25 | She did do some sewing at school did n't she ? |
| 26 | I did do some of that |
| 27 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 28 | Although there appears no evidence that Roe did do any work under this option , they were certainly deepening their workings in the Coniston Mine , on the Bonsor Vein . |
| 29 | But he did do three fabulous nights in Philadelphia and Boston again . |
| 30 | It was primarily an amateur place , but they did do three professional productions a year , mostly of plays on the school curriculum like The Royal Hunt of the Sun . |