Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] do [prep] " in BNC.

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1 WHAT DOES MY BODY DO WITH THE CALORIES I EAT ?
2 ‘ I get most of my paintings done during lunch-times , ’ he says .
3 Well when I had my boob done including consultation , his was about seven hundred pound .
4 Thus a recent work , The Penitent ( Royal Academy 1991 ) , was based on a drawing of my wife done in 1948 .
5 My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later .
6 As my daughter did on Sunday in two and a half hours .
7 She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child .
8 On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT .
9 My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air .
10 Many of these principles are illustrated by the work my class did on the Fibonacci sequence .
11 spend my time doing over the past few years .
12 it 's not like my brother did in his physics degree where he sort of ended up getting twelve percent overall in his second year and then took the year again and got six percent erm that 's very difficult to do in psychology erm
13 And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one .
14 Yeah , better get their hair done before the fish and chips .
15 However , if it strikes a chord — as many of her views did with me and my already shaky faith then and requires you to question your faith — QUESTION IT and stop following like sheep .
16 Those now providing voluntary humanitarian relief are merely doing of their own free will and on a small scale what we hope citizens of the rich nations will as soon as possible compel their states to do on a massive scale . ’
17 When I asked Mrs Zamzam what her sons did for a living , a young man interrupted to say that they all worked ‘ for the revolution ’ .
18 Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one .
19 Well , she can be an old lady with her hair done up in a silver bun if she likes ( what a picture that conjures up ! ) .
20 If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money .
21 On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records .
22 And she had her hair done in pigtails with green ribbons , and a stupid green hat stuck on her head .
23 she 's had all her plans done for her
24 What can her words do to me ?
25 If only cat owners realised the damage their pets do to garden birds .
26 Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself .
27 Their refusal to face the fact that many schools want to opt out of having their budgeting done for them by remote administrators .
28 If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house .
29 Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job .
30 Which Eggar did for as the pain increased , so did his anger .
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