Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 2 | ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts . |
| 3 | Do I do it with that pencil thing of yours or with er Amber Clean |
| 4 | ‘ See if she 's put the fire out and done anything about that Martello tower holiday . ’ |
| 5 | Can we do anything in this structure plan forum to change that position . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you seriously asking me to do something for twenty dollars difference a night . |
| 7 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 8 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 9 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 10 | He was a different type of skater but he did plenty of modern lip stuff including backside smith stop to fakie , and much other to-fakie weirdness . |
| 11 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 12 | And Britain 's greatest-ever sprinter , aiming to become the oldest man in history to win the coveted crown , did it by humbling drug cheat Ben Johnson last night in front of 61,000 spectators and a worldwide television audience . |
| 13 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 14 | Yow car n't do anything in that state any'ow . ’ |
| 15 | We do lots of different drawing exercises , drapery and still life and other stuff — and we take it in turns to pose . ’ |