Example sentences of "do that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my family done that for four generations . |
| 2 | The problem of the assault course of whether she 's actually fitted in in three months , anyhow that 's what we ought to write that in , but er , she travels , she travels most weekends playing hockey for Yorkshire , and has done that for four years , and she 's all over , where were you ? , |
| 3 | I have n't done that for two years . |
| 4 | I travelled all so all this , Jim that 's alive now I done that for two years . |
| 5 | So he 's done that for five minutes there . |
| 6 | And then , before that , if you if you was to make the mealy puddings the it that always had to be cut into bits and emptied and washed well in cold water , and with salt and that , and that was They would done that for three days before they were then filled up to make the mealy puddings . |
| 7 | They may reawaken memories of happier times-'my husband would have done that in five minutes ' . |
| 8 | Oh yes , there is I mean obviously we do n't do that for seventy pounds because we could n't obviously . |
| 9 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 10 | Not only do we do that at United Biscuits , we also second one manager for every two thousand employees . |
| 11 | We could never do that with Argentine ponies : they just bolted in terror . |
| 12 | And you know , I do n't want to enforce my morals onto someone else , or my ethics , and I really would like to ask people do n't try and do that to other women either ! |
| 13 | Thing is they do n't they do n't do that to young children . |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 16 | If ( 15 ) and ( 17 ) provide only weak and uncertain support for the " emphasis " solution , the cases in ( 18 ) count as very strong evidence against it ; in ( 18 ) no amount of determination to treat the adjectives as emphatic permits them to become postnominal : ( 18 ) a child intelligent could do that in five minutes the juggler skilful wanted a pay raise cranes squeaky were soon unloading the cargo Some further explanation is therefore clearly needed . |
| 17 | I mean , you can do that in various ways , by inviting them all to come along , you know , have a Saturday down at , invite them to come along as representatives of the organizations and talk with the parish council |
| 18 | And you could do that in two weeks . |
| 19 | Now you , you can do that in all sorts of ways . |
| 20 | The idea is , I 'll present it you and you you can I wo n't try and astound you with it because it is hard to do that under these contexts . |
| 21 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not fair to do that to sick children . |
| 23 | But the Dutch stopped us from doing that at later funerals . |
| 24 | And then you see the the council I did that for nineteen years . |
| 25 | I did that for 18 months , leaving Safferys at seven and not getting home until midnight . |
| 26 | We did that in two shifts did n't we ? |
| 27 | If you 're doing both then that 's your total income and if you did that in three weeks I would think you 'd be very happy with that . |
| 28 | Do that with different clubs , noting how far the ball runs for each club . |
| 29 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 30 | Rather , it commands the government to make sure that its actions do not help acceptable ideals more than unacceptable ones , to see to it that its actions will not hinder the cause of false ideals more than they do that of true ones . |