Example sentences of "do do [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well in the evening they ca n't do do that now .
2 Well , well anyway we 'll do do that and see see what the other 's like .
3 But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know .
4 I hate it people go have got a lot a load of homework to do do all their bloody homework week 's homework in about one bloody day
5 Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull .
6 Well I did do all my housework , you 'd never know I 'd done it .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Yeah , put that we did do that .
11 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 .
12 As I say I , a couple of years ago an authority did do that , it swapped .
13 I did do that .
14 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 .
15 You did do that well !
16 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
17 She said so I said , so they did do that ?
18 she did do that , what they get for it erm
19 I did do that .
20 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
21 by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 ‘ As a matter of fact , I did do some .
25 Of course , we did do some elementary botany … ’
26 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 .
27 She did do some sewing at school did n't she ?
28 I did do some of that
29 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 .
30 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 .
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