Example sentences of "[conj] do [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 2 | Yeah , its just er I feel you know its , its a waste of your life , you know sitting , I have to drive through the , the necessity to work every day , its an hour of my day spent just behind a wheel when I could be in the train , you know reading or doing something more productive |
| 3 | The fee for permission — not writing , or speaking , or doing anything mildly useful — was £10,000 , £2,000 a word , a rate for the job that , I can now reveal , not even the NSS matches . |
| 4 | He longed for her to either finish her job and go back to Germany , or do something blatantly treacherous so he would have an excuse to get rid of her . |
| 5 | Every time he buys me something I think it is proof that he 's not going to kill me or do anything else unpleasant . |
| 6 | In the meantime one studies them as landscapes , so to speak , simply to heighten one 's pleasure in sight-seeing , to get behind the superficial appearances , to uncover the layers of the palimpsest and to see , for example , a piece of the tenth century in the way a street makes an abrupt turn or does something else unexpected . |
| 7 | But it 's unerringly steady when you 're pressing on , and lurches slightly less ponderously into a tight bend than does its more sophisticated ( and independently sprung ) 960 24v sister . |
| 8 | I 'd like to try and do something completely different , but the trouble is , what ? ’ |
| 9 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 10 | She took her time , and done it real careful . |
| 11 | I do n't know what anyone else says , you 've only got to be in prison a week — no , a day — and all you want when you get out is revenge , to go and get drunk and do something really stupid like break a shop window or something . |
| 12 | ‘ Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt . ’ |
| 13 | Get yourself a good lawyer , and if somebody rips you off , punish them , and do it so hard that their ancestors hurt |
| 14 | You know as quick as you can but do it as neat as you can . |
| 15 | For more than two months the men received full pay but did nothing more strenuous than drink cups of tea and read the paper . |
| 16 | One can imagine Paddy Ashdown opting for the great outdoors where a man can dream of the balance of power while doing something environmentally friendly in a boat . |
| 17 | This is not a new message , but in trying to develop a more sensitive account of what contemporary Folk Devils are actually doing , we are obliged to consider how and why others in society have come to think of them as doing something quite different . |
| 18 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |