Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [be] [verb] a [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 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 5 | In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad : what they did was impose a single procedural regime . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 8 | But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What A Present View forces us to do is to reconsider a traditional equation between humanism and liberalism . |