Example sentences of "[vb base] do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you propose to do the same ? ’ |
| 2 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 3 | There are now some 1500 hakims still practising their Byzantine medicine in Delhi , and they appear to do a thriving business . |
| 4 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
| 5 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 6 | We all want to do a mighty work for God , but do not realise that we are living on privatised religious estates on the outskirts of the city of the world . |
| 7 | So I 'll explain how we want to do a three-page feature on , for the sake of argument , the literary genius of Melvyn Bragg . |
| 8 | Because , I want to do a little bit of that erm we are going |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a good thing you 're such a chaste little man-hater , Virginia , because the trouble is I want to do a whole lot more than just kiss you … ’ |
| 10 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 11 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 12 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 13 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 14 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 15 | " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said . |
| 16 | I ask them to visit some of the communities that I represent , from which industry has disappeared and in which it is not only the person approaching pensionable age who is unemployed and in receipt of social security benefit , but the caring young people in the family who want to do the best for their relatives . |
| 17 | I just want to do the best I can . " |
| 18 | Now for copyright reasons , if you want to do the Blind Watchmaker , and I 'd very much like you to , you 've got ta borrow the disk from me , okay ? |
| 19 | The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then . |
| 20 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 21 | After pouring energy into factory automation the inventive Japanese want to do the same for people 's houses and flats . |
| 22 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 23 | But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party . |
| 24 | ‘ I wo n't run any of the major three championships after Barcelona , but I still want to do the big marathons , like London and New York . |
| 25 | Manufacturers arc doing the weight-prone no favour in removing fibre from fruits to make them into juices . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope to do the same in London this year as I did last — win it . |
| 27 | Dealing 2000 Phase Two , due out this year ( forex dealing ) , and the upcoming Globex after-hours futures trading system hope to do the same in other markets . |
| 28 | Imagine doing a shitty job like that ! ’ |
| 29 | As Alexander was often heard to say — if you stop doing the wrong thing , then the right thing will emerge naturally . |
| 30 | For example , we can not answer such questions as at what time does a rural Malagasy begin work and at what time does he or she end it ? |