Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 2 | The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds . |
| 3 | ‘ Because what I am asking you to do is become the paid companion to la Principessa . ’ |
| 4 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 5 | The first one is for producing diatonic sus4 type chords and the formula is ‘ substitute 3 for 4 ’ , so to build these chords on every scale degree all you do is delete the thirds from each triad and add in its place the note that is a diatonic fourth ( four letter names inclusive of the root note ) above the root of the chord . |
| 6 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
| 7 | Well I think what you do is push the yellow somewhere towards the peg in the middle . |
| 8 | What we do is to picture the current situation altered to the extent that Mrs Thatcher delays the election . |
| 9 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 10 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 11 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 12 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 13 | All he did was to invoke the dubious metaphysical principle of " sufficient reason " in order to ensure the existential uniqueness of his monads and secure a basis for a meaningful distinction between numerical and qualitative identity . |
| 14 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 15 | But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger . |
| 16 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 17 | It it 's a it 's a measurement area here for example , but all it does is record the binary pattern er under that area . |
| 18 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |
| 19 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 20 | What A Present View forces us to do is to reconsider a traditional equation between humanism and liberalism . |
| 21 | What the computer system enables us to do is input the various pieces of information for each case which are particular to that case but to run these pieces of information through a set framework of events which produce the appropriate documentation , thus achieving a cost effective and efficient system . |