Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 2 | Well when I come back to England today , as I do nearly every summer , it seems a fantastically rich and happier country than the one I grew up in . |
| 3 | ( I am Treasurer of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the Scottish ‘ arm ’ of the CTC ) , and I do quite a bit of cycling for leisure , including much of the Borders Region which is , in many ways , ideal for cycling ) . |
| 4 | I keep very well really , I do quite a bit of walking , you know ? |
| 5 | Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller . |
| 6 | I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences . |
| 7 | I do all the work , and sometimes I even do things they do n't tell me to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do all the drawings , unlike other studios where you have someone to do the cars , someone to do the buildings . |
| 9 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 10 | " I do all the housework and the cooking , my mam and dad both work , " said an unemployed teenager in Coventry . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 12 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 13 | The jaw bones , who do all the talking but little else ! |
| 14 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 15 | you do about a quarter . |
| 16 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 17 | You do all the interviews the promoter wants . |
| 18 | When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent . |
| 19 | You take Chloroquin every week and Proguanin every day , and you do so a week before leaving England and six weeks after returning . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect you do quite a bit of travelling in your work ? ’ he probed , when she wanted to be the one asking the questions . |
| 21 | ‘ You do quite a lot , do n't you , Marcus ? ’ |
| 22 | erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics |
| 23 | He said : ‘ If we do well the rewards will be good . |
| 24 | Sometimes humans put out bowls of milk for us and we do all the housework for them . |
| 25 | ( Mager I 962 47 ) In fact the definition of objectives and the evaluation of progress is something which as teachers we do all the tune ; it simply happens to be true that many of us do it very amateurishly and very half-heartedly , indeed we do it badly . |
| 26 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 27 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
| 28 | Well , apple tart , but you know , things we bring in , apple tarts erm , custard slices , a the occasional eclair erm , yeah , we do quite a range , actually . |
| 29 | you put your glasses on to try and see , and you ca n't pluck the eyebrows because the glasses are in the way so we do quite a lot of eyebrow trimming , erm at salon . |
| 30 | This is usually because the vision in one of her eyes is less good than the other and the brain has ‘ switched off ’ this eye , letting the better one do all the work . |