Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to do some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning , too , she had said to her father , ‘ I want this afternoon off ; I want to do some shopping . ’ |
| 2 | I want to do some scuba , for Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 3 | If I want to do some slap bass or play some very fast , light jazzy stuff , I 'd probably have to wear the bass quite high up , almost Mark King height , to really be comfortable . |
| 4 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 5 | ‘ Every year I like to do some kind of challenge to raise money for charity and to inspire others to raise money as well , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 7 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 8 | I offered to do some jobs until the others returned . |
| 9 | You know , like I say , I try to do some things different , and then that do n't work sometimes cos I think well why am I doing 'em like that . |
| 10 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 11 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 12 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
| 13 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 14 | No cos erm I need to do some stuff today . |
| 15 | ‘ I know I need to do some exercise for golf . |
| 16 | Tony said I need to do some exercise late at night . |
| 17 | Yeah but I need to do some typing . |
| 18 | ‘ But to confirm my diagnosis I need to do some tests . |
| 19 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 20 | I was very happy with the African work , and it 's left me wanting to do some exploration work , travelling expeditions and so on , as well as pure sports work . ’ |
| 21 | You have n't got any holes Ok that 's , do you want to do some toast ? |
| 22 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 23 | Er so yeah , you want to do some questioney tag things ? |
| 24 | If you want to do some writing with it to explain earth rotates half way in twelve hours that 's up to you . |
| 25 | If you want to do some carrot maps those children who did n't do carrot maps , you may do some . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you going to do some detective work ? |
| 27 | Would you like to do some puzzles ? |
| 28 | She had contacted this Mrs , would you like to do some planting ? |
| 29 | Erm you 'd have thought that they would have taken the trouble to erm you know to do some bit of arm twisting . |
| 30 | You managed to do some work in the preparation of the 1946 Salzburg Festival but there were still complications . |