Example sentences of "all they do be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , bugger me , all they do is sit in little Toyota vans all day bouncing around taking pictures of Tommies . ’ |
| 2 | Adders are the only poisonous serpents in the British Isles , and they 're such lazy sods all they do is sunbathe beside or sleep underneath rocks after a meal of small frogs . |
| 3 | All they do is set up an obstacle course for the surfer . ’ |
| 4 | When we finally meet beings from another galaxy , all they do is moan ! |
| 5 | All they do is give you some ointment and tell you it 'll drop out in its own good time . |
| 6 | Yeah , so we could , yeah , you know , it 'll , it 'll be a lot better , I mean all they do is grow either that grain or corn |
| 7 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 8 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 9 | All they do is describe what has happened in the past and guess that the pattern will repeat itself . |
| 10 | The thing , the thing I like about it is with , with blackies and things like that when they turn it up all they do is boom , boom |
| 11 | The most technologically advanced race in the universe , and all they do is seek knowledge . |
| 12 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 13 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 14 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 15 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 16 | Do you remember football wise back in nineteen sixty-six they played against England and all they did was kick our players . |
| 17 | Nothing 's ever been taken ; all they did was rearrange the lounge furniture . |
| 18 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 19 | And we got the union to er all all they did was to help us , was to pay for the text books that we had . |
| 20 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |