Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] a [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 | ( 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 ) . |
3 | I keep very well really , I do quite a bit of walking , you know ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | you do about a quarter . |
8 | You take Chloroquin every week and Proguanin every day , and you do so a week before leaving England and six weeks after returning . |
9 | ‘ I expect you do quite a bit of travelling in your work ? ’ he probed , when she wanted to be the one asking the questions . |
10 | ‘ You do quite a lot , do n't you , Marcus ? ’ |
11 | 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 |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | They do quite a lot of stuff in there . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |