Example sentences of "do [pron] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do you all the good in the world . ’ |
| 2 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
| 3 | Right well I 've done it all the way through . |
| 4 | They should do it all the time I reckon . |
| 5 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
| 6 | Provided that , ’ she added as though drafting a contract , ‘ you do n't do it all the time . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I see that when I come Does she do it all the time then or was it just one-off ? |
| 8 | and the thread bit on I do n't do it all the time look you 've got half a sense mind half a strong common sense |
| 9 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 10 | But he wants to become the first man to do it all the way across . |
| 11 | We shall assume that you have come to work but not to do it all the time . |
| 12 | And erm , I always felt sorry for the people working in Inland Revenue because er , they were , they were having to do it all the time |
| 13 | We ca n't just keep asking the people that actually pay to come to the matches to do it all the time , they have to be supplemented from industry anyway . |
| 14 | He was doing it all the while and they went Keith ! |
| 15 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
| 16 | Why , why is everyone rushing off doing it all the time ? |
| 17 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
| 18 | I mean , other thing we really need to all , er you see , when I was working at it , and when we were doing it all the time |
| 19 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
| 20 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 21 | I did it all the time , more by accident that design . ] |
| 22 | Birds did it all the time with ease and grace , but for the crews of the bombers that flew from Fenton Bishop aerodrome she knew that to take off meant dry-mouthed apprehension and an ice-cold hand that twisted your guts and made you want to throw up the supper you had neither tasted nor enjoyed . |
| 23 | She did it all the time when Rob was not with her , recalling words they had spoken , hearing music and shared laughter . |
| 24 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 25 | Most dogs break wind occasionally but Cedric was different ; he did it all the time . |
| 26 | She did it all the time . |
| 27 | Soon find out , cos you do it all the morning and stuff . |
| 28 | We do it all the time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not very happy about it either , ’ said Masklin , ‘ but Shrub 's people do it all the time . |
| 30 | Of course , they do it all the time but that does n't make it any easier to get used to . |