Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] [art] [noun sg] " 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 housework and the cooking , my mam and dad both work , " said an unemployed teenager in Coventry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The jaw bones , who do all the talking but little else ! |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | you do about a quarter . |
| 13 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 14 | You take Chloroquin every week and Proguanin every day , and you do so a week before leaving England and six weeks after returning . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect you do quite a bit of travelling in your work ? ’ he probed , when she wanted to be the one asking the questions . |
| 16 | ‘ You do quite a lot , do n't you , Marcus ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Sometimes humans put out bowls of milk for us and we do all the housework for them . |
| 19 | ( 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They do quite a lot of stuff in there . |
| 24 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |
| 25 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 26 | As they do so the male arches his back and draws his sexual opening adjacent to that of the female . |
| 27 | Food processors have revolutionised some people 's lives because they take all the effort out of preparing food , as they do all the chopping , slicing , grating , blending , whisking , and kneading incredibly fast . |
| 28 | ‘ They do all the performing and I just sit around watching them ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , why should some of us do all the work ? ’ |