Example sentences of "do [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked what she would do once she had satisfied her immediate needs , one emigrant said , pensively , ‘ I shall watch the East German anniversary celebrations , but I do n't know if I will be laughing or crying . ’ |
| 2 | I wish they would move that because there 's nothing I can do now it 's gone over the fence . |
| 3 | But what we 've done now they 've agreed to let me pay and I pay cost price for the drinks . |
| 4 | Even when as we 've done here we 've got which is timber which is cut like the slices of a cake from the outer rim to the centre . |
| 5 | Yes , we 've done well we 've had a pretty good season really , right throughout the club erm in our non-league games . |
| 6 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 7 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 8 | In refusing to do so it had acted within the law . |
| 9 | In refusing to do so it had acted within the law . |
| 10 | In doing so we have argued that the processes involved in word recognition are rather different for spoken and printed words . |
| 11 | In doing so they had met opposition from the authorities . |
| 12 | Megaw LJ said that each of the parties desired to avoid the possibility that the other might challenge the opinion of the valuer because the parties had stipulated that the auditors should act as experts , and by doing so they had showed that they wanted a measure of certainty , accepting the risk , which applied either way , that the expert might err . |
| 13 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 14 | In doing so they had discharged their duty of care . |
| 15 | In doing so they have reinforced and theorised a traditional Western cultural opposition between nature and culture . |
| 16 | In doing so they have pointed the way to a European future in which Germany will be the single biggest power , economically , politically , and perhaps militarily , so far as that still matters . |
| 17 | But the strikers who have fought over so many months with so much courage and strength have achieved another kind of victory — they have exposed once and for all the myth of the TUC 's solidarity with exploited workers and in the process of doing so they have redefined the methods and outlook of industrial struggle . |
| 18 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 19 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 20 | But then again , Pontius Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus and thought that in doing so he had got rid of him . |
| 21 | She 'd no idea why Ace should have broken his date with Dara to spend the evening with her , but it certainly looked as if by doing so he 'd stirred up some pretty powerful emotions . |
| 22 | But in doing so he has conceived many a dangerous folly . |
| 23 | ‘ In doing so I have had to balance two key objectives . |
| 24 | In doing so it has had the benefit of conversations with the Revd. |
| 25 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |
| 26 | In doing so she has laid herself low as well . |
| 27 | So what I 'm doing now I 've got one of the lads down at er Plastics |
| 28 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |
| 29 | oh yeah , what we do now I 've got a , a bought cabinet |
| 30 | ‘ Then why did n't we get sucked into the building like the others ? ’ said Cardiff , still holding on to him . |