Example sentences of "do [pron] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 2 | How portable do I need this cot to be ? |
| 3 | Why do I have this dream about drowning ? |
| 4 | Why do I recommend this type of DIY practice ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did you make this mark on her neck ? ’ |
| 6 | Did you see this happening to other people ? |
| 7 | ‘ Jacob , why did you let this stranger into my house ? ’ |
| 8 | Did you notice this morning on the box , the er weather girl ? |
| 9 | Where did you get this stuff from ? |
| 10 | And then he picked one particular line out he said , where did you get this figure from ? |
| 11 | It should state : ‘ Do you want this treaty to be brought into effect or not ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you want this stuffing with it so that it 's all cooked together ? |
| 13 | Do you want this light on ? |
| 14 | Do you think this sort of advertising is a good or a bad idea ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why do you have this interest in the criminal classes ? ’ asked Brian of his wife . |
| 16 | How true do you consider this statement to be of Mark Antony ? |
| 17 | How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ? |
| 18 | How do you see this togetherness in relation to hope for change in the apartheid system ? |
| 19 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 20 | Maybe those are the questions we should asking , rather than you know , do you take this man for your husband . |
| 21 | You 've got two pi do you want one , do you like this picture of me Jonathan ? |
| 22 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
| 23 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |
| 24 | Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion . |
| 25 | ‘ Where do we meet this man of yours ? ’ |
| 26 | As time went on , the slow growth of Europe 's wealth , and the even slower improvement of its communications , did something to reduce this sort of inconvenience , expense and even physical danger . |
| 27 | I am neither condoning nor criticising all these changes but it is vital that we do something to counteract this decrease in activity . |
| 28 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 29 | ‘ Why do they put this rubbish on show , instead of some real art ? ’ |
| 30 | Where did he fund this committee from one has to ask immediately . |