Example sentences of "[be] [verb] do [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 2 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 3 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 4 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
| 5 | But we 're trying to do something about that . |
| 6 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 7 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 8 | Oh no , no , no , please , turn round I 'm going to do something in that slip . |
| 9 | Were Spiritualists going to be forced to do it in strange , and possibly overexciting , positions ? |
| 10 | I 'd love to be forced to do it in strange positions . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrats ' defence spokesman , Menzies Campbell , said later that the president 's proposals were a gimmick and ‘ smacked of being seen to do something without serious understanding of its effectiveness ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 13 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 14 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 15 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 16 | A Home Office insider said : ‘ Kenneth Clarke is determined to do something about this . |
| 17 | I was taught to do it in first and use the accelerator . |