Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 3 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 4 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 5 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 6 | I mean , I suppose I do in a way . |
| 7 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 8 | " Well , I do in a way . |
| 9 | ‘ Well I do in a sense . |
| 10 | In my case it 's every morning , though I do in a sense like it as it heralds the beginning of another crap day at school . |
| 11 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 12 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 13 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 14 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 15 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 16 | Ah , fucking , like you do on a Friday night ! |
| 17 | A live show is something separate and you do different things in a live show to what you do on a record . |
| 18 | And of course you do about a yard and then you 're stuck . |
| 19 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing you do with a pen or the one that means the opposite of wrong ? ’ |
| 21 | Surely you know that , living as you do with a child-woman ? |
| 22 | Orientate this drawing as you do with a map when flying . |
| 23 | That sounds like a horrible sodomising thing you do with a rifle in Vietnam ’ ) . |
| 24 | Try to get the feeling of holding the clubface open through impact ( photo 10 ) , but do n't imitate what you do with a greenside bunker shot . |
| 25 | Yeah , but you do for a programme . |
| 26 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 28 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
| 29 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 30 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |