Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Try to get the feeling of holding the clubface open through impact ( photo 10 ) , but do n't imitate what you do with a greenside bunker shot . |
| 32 | ‘ The thing you do with a pen or the one that means the opposite of wrong ? ’ |
| 33 | Orientate this drawing as you do with a map when flying . |
| 34 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 35 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 37 | Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person . |
| 38 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
| 39 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 40 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 42 | Yeah , but you do for a programme . |
| 43 | It consists of a record of all the things you do in a day and , in order for it to be of value , you need to log every activity you are engaged in for at least one week , if not for two . |
| 44 | So you 've go got a situation where if somebody wants to change something they 're actually , you know maybe it 's something you do in a job or something like this , and somebody says we , we really ought to change this . |
| 45 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 46 | ‘ For some , science is something you do in a laboratory , something you talk about , and something you get excited about . |
| 47 | I turned , like you do in a nightmare , and down the years the vision of terror I glimpsed still springs fresh in my mind . |
| 48 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 49 | but I suppose you do in a way |
| 50 | You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ? |
| 51 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 52 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 53 | We grow up to expect that , if we become a client of some professional service or other , that it is a voluntary thing , something we do as a matter of choice . |
| 54 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 55 | But I think we do as a council , support that Sports Centre very well at the moment , which we did n't expect to be doing . |
| 56 | ‘ We have maintained the low profile here because the level of publicity we received at the start would actually hamper the work we do at a community level . |
| 57 | Erm , the other thing I 'd like to draw your attention to is para six point one , just a little tabulation there , because what they 're saying is that on the number of cuts per specification , that 's what exists now , er three hundred and twenty eight thousand , that 's about the same as this year , er if you go to the hundred millimetre cut , which is what we 're suggesting we do on a trial basis , the cost to the County Council will amount to another hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year . |
| 58 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 59 | manual expression ( the child is requested to ‘ Show me what we do with a … ’ ) . |
| 60 | Now , pedicures is really a manicure of the toes , but what we do with a pedicure , we actually rub away the hard skin that you may have on the bottom of your feet , on the side of your big toe , that 's usually where it builds up , or on the ball of the foot . |