Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates . |
| 2 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 3 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 4 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 5 | right , and that I do all day is put a little top up in there . |
| 6 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 7 | And it did hit , so that I did suitable amount of gasping and goggling and even Mala drew in her breath with a hiss . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , deciding , for the moment , to keep a safe distance between them , ‘ I know you think I nicked them keys , that I did that kiosk and Madge 's house — ‘ |
| 9 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |
| 10 | We had this really nice Danish apple bar that I did last night . |
| 11 | I 've only got a couple that I did last week . |
| 12 | And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ? |
| 13 | than I do red meat , do n't eat |
| 14 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 15 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 16 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 17 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 18 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 19 | It was n't , so I did another U-turn and cut back into Lee Metford Road . |
| 20 | He is annoyed that she does little cleaning and that the burden of getting Keith and Amy up and breakfasted is always his responsibility . |
| 21 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 22 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 23 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing , beyond the fact that you do some housekeeping for Alan Dysart at Tyler 's — ’ |
| 25 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 26 | But it may be that what we do is is as you say that we Does that guidance thing give general broad headings ? |
| 27 | It 's much like the relationship between GM and Lotus in that we do co-operative engineering work with it , but we do n't get actively involved in the day-to-day operation of that company . |
| 28 | We said we said at the start of this that we did enough training . |
| 29 | I think really what we want to do is to decide whether or not we are using the annual report as a a list of jobs that we did last year . |
| 30 | I 'm not bothered cos I , I mean the things that we did last year |