Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 2 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 4 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 5 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 6 | To my mind , what I do as a medical sociologist is just as scientific . |
| 7 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 8 | I mean , I suppose I do in a way . |
| 9 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 10 | ‘ Well I do in a sense . |
| 11 | " Well , I do in a way . |
| 12 | In my case it 's every morning , though I do in a sense like it as it heralds the beginning of another crap day at school . |
| 13 | But your , your point about not being very er positive the interviews that I do I , I do in a very relaxed manner . |
| 14 | Know what she do with a , . |
| 15 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe it is quite hard , the work that you do as a Strict Regime prisoner . |
| 17 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 18 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 19 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 20 | A live show is something separate and you do different things in a live show to what you do on a record . |
| 21 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 22 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 23 | Ah , fucking , like you do on a Friday night ! |
| 24 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 25 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 26 | And of course you do about a yard and then you 're stuck . |
| 27 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 28 | That sounds like a horrible sodomising thing you do with a rifle in Vietnam ’ ) . |
| 29 | Surely you know that , living as you do with a child-woman ? |
| 30 | — Cruelty to animals takes two forms : the method of killing it and what you do with a live animal which is in your power . |