Example sentences of "[pers pn] do in a " in BNC.

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1 I mean , I suppose I do in a way .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Well I do in a sense .
4 " Well , I do in a way .
5 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 .
6 But your , your point about not being very er positive the interviews that I do I , I do in a very relaxed manner .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 ‘ For some , science is something you do in a laboratory , something you talk about , and something you get excited about .
11 I turned , like you do in a nightmare , and down the years the vision of terror I glimpsed still springs fresh in my mind .
12 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 .
13 but I suppose you do in a way
14 You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ?
15 In short , we would wish to order and organize what we do in a morally respectable and defensible way .
16 Simply stated , only 20 per cent of the tasks we do in a day produce 80 per cent of the rewards .
17 However they do in a way fit the scheme already outlined .
18 In general terms the system is bureaucratic and inflexible , with prices not conveying the kind of information which they do in a market economy and with incentives being blunted .
19 However , status attributes ascribed by birth in a caste society define an individual 's position in the stratification system much more completely and securely than they do in a class society .
20 The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass .
21 Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely .
22 And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense .
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