Example sentences of "[adj] do [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easier to do it that way ! |
| 2 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 3 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 4 | If they want to watch television , they do that ; if they want to walk around , they walk around , some do their own thing like reading or games . |
| 5 | ‘ Now would n't that do his immortal soul some good too ? ’ |
| 6 | You could do that and it would be easy to do it that way then to do it with time sheets . |
| 7 | If a man who owns so much land dies and his sons are entitled to such a percentage , how much do his four sons each have , how much do three daughters each have , how much does the widow own ? |
| 8 | ‘ How much did your unwilling informant from Six tell you about Plainsong ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's actually very fast to do it that way . |
| 10 | but Portsmouth took , took them two matches , supposed to do it extra time like . |
| 11 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
| 12 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 13 | I imagine so , is she due to do them next year ? |
| 14 | But as I say it ce it would be better to do it that way . |
| 15 | From St Paul 's Cathedral to Putney Vale Crematorium did not seem such a short distance to the neighbours , such was their generous enthusiasm for Donald 's interment , and when they heard there were plans for a memorial service at Wimbledon Parish Church , some people said it was even better to do it this way . |
| 16 | Now it 's too late to do them this morning cos the van 's already gone . |
| 17 | He 'll get that in time to move out himself if he 's on the level , too late to do you any harm if he 's not . ’ |
| 18 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 19 | Yeah again it 's not brilliant to do it this way but it will just fit on . |
| 20 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 21 | , all did their best work within that tradition . |
| 22 | During the two weeks of glorious sunshine , we all did our annual weapons , first aid and fitness tests . |
| 23 | Once the kids and those slightly older have made it , they all do their best steps and twists , unself-consciously , monotonously , strangely introverted . |
| 24 | The possibilities are endless and they all do their little bit to help keep you in a state of readiness for change . |
| 25 | Oh so they all do their own thing ? |
| 26 | I suggest we all do our own descriptions . |
| 27 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
| 28 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 29 | — GLENDALE Social Club doorman Brian Smith well known for his ghosthunting activities is also an expert gardener and is offering his services to disabled people and pensioners in Houghton , who are unable to do their own gardening . |
| 30 | They are not mind readers and unless you explain , in some detail , what you are trying to achieve with a particular photograph they will not be able to do their best work . |