Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 2 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 3 | I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out . |
| 4 | Du n no what I just done with the key actually . |
| 5 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 6 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 7 | Look what I already did to your car . ’ |
| 8 | What have I ever done to anyone ? |
| 9 | What have I ever done to you ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What 've I ever done to you , Carter ? ’ |
| 11 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 12 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 13 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 14 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 15 | But I did kick the drug , Mr Breakspear , and it was probably the hardest damned thing I ever did in all my life . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 17 | Richard has described this period as ‘ pure hell ’ and ‘ the hardest work I ever did in my life ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Helping you was the most stupid thing I ever did in my life . |
| 19 | I think the bravest thing I ever did in my life was sing solo at that pantomime , I , I think that was braver than giving birth or having my wisdom teeth out . |
| 20 | I always did after a terror-dream . |
| 21 | Pei 's generosity with space , the fact that one never feels oppressed by ceilings ( as I always do at Lasdun 's National Theatre ) , reveals him as a distinctive architectural sculptor . |
| 22 | What I always do on a Monday |
| 23 | ‘ We 've just time to do what I always do with Dick Francis ; spoil the suspense by peeking at the end . |
| 24 | I wanted to be a winner when I played football and I still do as a manager . ’ |
| 25 | One might , as I usually do with one of his novels , quarrel mildly about his formal devices ; but that would be an irrelevant vanity . |
| 26 | And that was one of the first jobs I I practically did on my own . |
| 27 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 28 | ‘ Okay then what can I really do for you ? — or did you just want to talk about old times ? ’ |
| 29 | I mainly do round the midlands now . |
| 30 | I am always fascinated by the little test I frequently do with my girls , I go through MKM and Modern Knitting and ask them to give marks , out of ten , for all the garments . |