Example sentences of "do thing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 2 | I do not think that the fact that consumer credit is at a high level is evidence that people are miserable — they have done things with the money that they have . |
| 3 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 4 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |
| 5 | I have done things before that no one else has achieved like winning the Japan Cup with Jupiter Island and the Breeders Cup with Pebbles . ’ |
| 6 | He said he 'd done things like that before . |
| 7 | Okay have you done things like erm three twelfths is the same as a quarter ? have you done that at school ? |
| 8 | I think there 's more more recently that 's done things like that than there was in them days . |
| 9 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 10 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 11 | These people have always Done Things in previous lives , perhaps to make up for their rather undistinguished efforts while being alive and in their own bodies . |
| 12 | He has n't done things in the sort of , you know , the preferred way . |
| 13 | Secondly , erm think of the world of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ , it must be so , or even more so in France perhaps , erm there 's this huge French administration which has done things in much the same way through the decades and I suppose wo n't easily be changed from doing them . |
| 14 | Her friend said , " I do n't do things without a reason , only when I 've got something against people , so we did things like spraying walls , not bus seats , we did n't slash them because people have to sit on them . |
| 15 | The trust my partner and I share gives us the freedom to get on and do things without stopping every ten minutes to check up on each other . |
| 16 | As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you . |
| 17 | People do n't realise that you can do things for yourself . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't do anything if the team does n't do things for me . ’ |
| 19 | And because I knew a lot of people , you 'd do things for different motives . |
| 20 | He lay back limp as a rag and let her do it , the way he always let people do things for him , not lifting a finger . |
| 21 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 22 | He does n't do things for stupid personal reasons . |
| 23 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 24 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 25 | If I do n't do things for you , you 're clearly not going to do anything for yourself . ’ |
| 26 | If we can do things for the kids then that 's fine , a bonus , but otherwise we are trying to help the system , to respond to what it wants of us . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ I have been used for too long , I must do things for myself now . |
| 28 | Was n't it Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot ( or was it Mr. Justice Wool ? ) in Misleading Cases in the Common Law who observed sternly to that persistent litigant , Mr. Haddock , ‘ People must not do things for fun . |
| 29 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 30 | And that 's what I want you to feel like Mandy I do n't want you to feel that you 've got ta do things for me . |