Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] do [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sapt , ’ I said , ‘ I promise I 'll do one thing for Ruritania before I leave it . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , I 'll do some work at home . |
| 3 | What I 'll erm , what I 'll do next week on this is a rather problematic topic this one erm it 's in the general section . |
| 4 | If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them . |
| 5 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 6 | You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not mind a few more so I could do more work at the Exchange . |
| 8 | BEFORE I realised the birds were my occasional allies , I used to do unkind things to them : fish for them , shoot them , tie them to stakes at low tide , put electrically detonated bombs under their nests , and so on . |
| 9 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 10 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 11 | There 's not the mystery around it really and I 've sort of made that into one of my points about =bout my work and also erm I always thought perhaps once I became wealthy and had money I would do real paintings in oil and canvass . |
| 12 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 13 | Well I shall do some stuff down this garden . |
| 14 | Maybe in the future I will do more things like that . |
| 15 | Well , he 's doing it , last wee I would n't mind doing the Wednesday actually cos I can do that sort of you know , student discos , you know , so |
| 16 | Paul recognized this when he wrote : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me ’ . |
| 17 | This is the nature of Christian joy through suffering , which reconciles the negative with the transcendent love of Christ , enabling us to say , like Paul the apostle : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me . ’ |
| 18 | Then he explained how he had found this incredible contentment : ‘ I can do all things through him who gives me strength . ’ |
| 19 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 20 | I can do all things in him who strengthens me . |
| 21 | ‘ I can do all things in him who strengthens me . ’ |
| 22 | I can do one thing in the light , and that 's send and treat for him in open negotiation . |
| 23 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
| 24 | So you 're quite happy with that , one hundred , two hundred , three hundred , four hundred , five hundred , six hundred oh I can do this standing on my head , right and you s you stop concentrating so much , and you 've gone up to , so that should be a seven hundred |
| 25 | I can do most things on that , but the one thing I 've always had a problem getting with that type of preamp setup is the kind of crunchy combo sound . |
| 26 | I would imagine that nobody can do that gig without the inevitable EC comparison … |
| 27 | ‘ Believe me , ’ she told him , ‘ you may do more good to the firm if you stay here . |
| 28 | Which is why you must do that sort of That that 's probably all you need for that bit . |
| 29 | Both types of stretching increase flexibility , and as a basic rule you should do static stretching before exercise and both ballistic and static after exercise . |
| 30 | When you put a quotation in your essay you should do several things with it : — Identify where the quotation comes from , e.g. the author and work : as Woolf suggests in The Common Reader , " [ QUOTE ] " . |