Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 4 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 5 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 7 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 8 | The judge ordered him to do 120 hours community service , saying you wo n't do it again , I hope you can put it all behind you . |
| 9 | In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs . |
| 10 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 11 | ‘ If we made him do cold turkey straight after the barbs , he 'd get the DTs , you know ? |
| 12 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 13 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 14 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 15 | You paint a picture like that Mars now I saw you do one time , empty with loneliness . |
| 16 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 17 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 18 | Cos I thought he did advanced French last year . |
| 19 | I sat there and thought what did this woman abolish ? |
| 20 | It saved me doing temporary work which I do n't much care for . ’ |
| 21 | Did I do thirteen C on which one ? |
| 22 | I today did you do one bulls eye no not cut up the thing and say which sport does this person belong to might get a picture of Rob Andrews see if they stick rugby or tennis on . |
| 23 | I 've got some erm announcements for this morning , Vicky , erm first of all I 'd like to introduce you to Anthony who comes from Longman 's Dictionaries why did , why did you do that Melanie ? |
| 24 | Did you do that paper ? |
| 25 | Why did you do that David ? |
| 26 | Did you do that tape recorder , is that turned off ? |
| 27 | Joseph Joe did you do thirteen , Joe did you do thirteen C ? |
| 28 | Did you do many takes for each song ? |
| 29 | Was there , did you do Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 30 | How did you do this gravy then dad ? |