Example sentences of "[vb past] to do some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 2 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 3 | He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go . |
| 4 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 5 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 6 | I 'm not a writer but I have done some singing , and so we met up and decided to do some songs , with a conscious effort to keep it basic-sounding , and showcase Lola 's voice . |
| 7 | You managed to do some work in the preparation of the 1946 Salzburg Festival but there were still complications . |
| 8 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 9 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 10 | I offered to do some jobs until the others returned . |
| 11 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 12 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 13 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 14 | She left to do some shopping and forgot the flowers . |
| 15 | They continued to do some work in this area and developed a third expert system for another circuit board in exactly the same way . |
| 16 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 17 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 18 | Because in them days er I , I think most of us had to , had to do some work . |
| 19 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
| 20 | Had to do some washing up at work today |
| 21 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 22 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you wanted to do some shopping , ’ Tony murmured . |
| 24 | she wanted to do some concerts in Europe and I booked the tour . |
| 25 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 26 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 27 | Oliver wanted to do some sightseeing and we felt too tired to drive back afterwards . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 29 | I remember that you intended to do some copying ( I do n't know of what ) , and there appears to be a lead missing ( audio JVC to monitor Din : 2 pin ) . |