Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 2 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 3 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 4 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 5 | " 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope to do the same in London this year as I did last — win it . |
| 7 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Mama always made sure that I learned to do the practical stuff , as well as fine embroidery and canvas work , ’ Sally-Anne had said . |
| 9 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 10 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 11 | It 's bad enough having to take out a loan to get married , I sometimes wonder if I need to do the same as a bridesmaid ! |
| 12 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 13 | Well you see she wants to do the whole lot er cos it 's all She said , Feet are the only part of the human body she can tolerate . |
| 14 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 17 | ‘ And you propose to do the same ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | Last year there were six weeks of industrial action , and if needs be , are you prepared to do the same again ? |
| 23 | Are you going to do the other one , or is somebody else ? |
| 24 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 25 | Now would you like to do the same for yours , work out what fraction of a total yours are . |
| 26 | ‘ We will make it a nice picnic , ’ she said , in the spirit of the penitent who intends to do the wicked thing she had first thought of but will also do something pleasant to make it slightly less reprehensible . |
| 27 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 28 | when do you have to do the first ? |
| 29 | but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ? |
| 30 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |