Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] do [art] " in BNC.

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1 I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts .
2 You see , I think housework is a waste of time , I do n't do it , or I do a minimum .
3 Where you doing a different job when you left ?
4 It 's cheaper than the five-door models and may suit drivers who seldom carry back-seat passengers , or who do the school run and prefer to keep children encapsulated .
5 " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said .
6 where we do the stew frying ?
7 The following day , most of us visited Bakewell , where we did a river walk , before returning to the college .
8 I suppose if we look at British history there was a period in the last century and earlier where we did a pretty good job of conquering people , but we do n't feel too badly about that , but we feel pretty indignant about Germany trying to take a bit more territory at various points .
9 and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool .
10 And if they 're from the council or whatever , or whoever does the roads or whatever they 'll probably get in contact with him again .
11 At Freiston Shore there is a hostelry well known to bird watchers where they do a Root pub lunch …
12 Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’
13 In the spring of 1942 , Major Gus March-Phillips , Major J. Geoffrey Appleyard , who served with 7 Commando in the autumn of 1940 , and Captain Graham Hayes had the SSRF in training at Wareham ( Dorset ) , where they did a lot of boat work , especially in dories .
14 The hard graft may be persuading him or her to do the job .
15 I was I was gon na ask you who or what does the mean , the name ?
16 An easy way to remember how to do this is to ask yourself a question ‘ who or what did the action ? ’ and place the answer before the verb .
17 Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually
18 Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little .
19 So what I would like to propose is that I do a homework timetable for year seven that that homework timetable goes round to all the departments and that we ask the department to stick to that timetable as far as they possibly can .
20 I have a fitting on Sunday for the ‘ New Faces ’ final — one gown with three jackets to ring the changes over the ninety minutes of live T.V. It 's imperative that I do the show as I ca n't think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill .
21 My shirts and nightwear were still " Annie Thompson " exclusives ( which was her maiden name ) and she would frequently scold herself when she made a mistake in her work and oddly I find that I do the same thing , even today , a sort of " pull your finger out Mahaddie " .
22 Everything that I do The other night when we came back the streets were deserted .
23 At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations .
24 Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake .
25 What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it .
26 Well I think I talk more with a Lancashire accent than I do a Stoke on Trent accent .
27 Mrs Clinton was quoted as saying : ‘ Nobody knows better than I do the pain that can be caused by discussing rumours , even in private conversations , and I did n't mean to be hurtful to anyone . ’
28 I had a be better night last night than I did the night before .
29 When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men .
30 It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves .
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