Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] do [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 2 | I should have done that straight away . |
| 3 | Erm I 'll attempt to do that tonight but I do n't hold out much hope so do n't hold your breath . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have done that anyway , whoever you were , ’ he returned dismissively , but derision glinted in his eyes as he went on , ‘ What 's worrying you , Maria ? |
| 5 | I would hate to do that orally I could only do that with |
| 6 | Erm and you might want to do that formally , you might a if you have pre-meetings with some of these people you might want to say that you are going to sit down and talk it through with me in advance ar and are they happy about that ? |
| 7 | Developing specific goals to implement your objectives is not necessary and may not be practical at this point , but you will need to do that eventually . |
| 8 | You will need to do this anyway , to reduce heat loss , and keep your electricity bill out of ‘ telephone numbers ’ . |
| 9 | But I did select my own peg words and you will have to do this too . |
| 10 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 11 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 12 | And I think there is scope for misunderstanding there , and I think that if those two basic things , if we could learn to do those better , and I say ‘ we ’ because I do n't think anyone has all the answers to these problems , that , that school-parent relationships would , would improve a lot more that way , by doing these basic things better , and being sensitive to the difficulties of , of communication , rather than by trying to do all kinds of new policy things and erect new formal committees of this and that kind . |
| 13 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 14 | ‘ But we shall have to do this properly . |
| 15 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 16 | We will continue to do this so that we can trade as efficiently as possible on our resorts in Spain and the Canary Islands . |
| 17 | In that case we will attempt to do this now and we 'll talk about interval naming afterwards those of you who can please attempt it there will be questions here that some of us ca n't . |
| 18 | Oh they must have done that then , the meters were in a room outside you see . |
| 19 | It was clear , too , that they would have to do this together . |
| 20 | He should have done that before instead of insisting on our groping our way up the Pan-Am Highway in darkness and bad visibility . |
| 21 | ‘ I asked Budd to telephone the police in quite a peremptory way , as I considered he should have done this before . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He could have done that easily . |
| 23 | Because I think I would have thought he 'd stop doing that now , but Pam said he still runs down the bottom of the garden . |
| 24 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |