Example sentences of "i [vb base] do a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean doing a couple of tables probably wo n't be that hard work cos it just be a case of a list of averages or something . |
| 2 | so it 's really not worth getting qualifications on reflection so I want to do a bit of work you see , build myself a reputation that sort of thing |
| 3 | Mark : ‘ I want to do a tour in the same way that The Cure or people like that tour , like a theatre production . |
| 4 | And I want to do a poo . |
| 5 | ‘ But first I want to do a line drawing from it , which can be used as a frontispiece for the book when it is published . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I like to do a bit for charity now and then . ’ |
| 7 | I suppose I like to do a variety of things too much . ’ |
| 8 | The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’ |
| 9 | I remember doing a crossword once and I could n't imagine what this word was that I 'd got . |
| 10 | I feel done a bit of sewing up on the shoulders and then it 's well on the way . |
| 11 | So I 've done a variety of jobs , and I 'm not quite sure how I ended up doing what I 'm doing I got into computers by accident , just being in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 12 | I 've done a bit of one |
| 13 | David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've done a bit of just about everything there is , ’ Josie said , lifting sections of Lucy 's hair and watching to see how it fell . |
| 15 | Well I 've done a bit of all sorts rea Mainly I looked after my dad while he was ill . |
| 16 | 'Can you dance ? ’ 'Well , I 've done a bit in the bath . ’ |
| 17 | Well she said I 've done a bit . |
| 18 | Oh I 've done a bit of drawing . |
| 19 | No I 've done a bit more actually Francis . |
| 20 | I can thaw it out in the microwave … and I 've done a salad and jacket potatoes . ’ |
| 21 | I 've done a runner on the lot of them . |
| 22 | Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've done a couple of Hermia , in fact several , ’ she shoved the book at Ricky . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've done a couple of shows . |
| 25 | I think I 've done a quarter of it |
| 26 | I 've done a swap of shifts with Terry Baines . |
| 27 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 28 | I 've done a ouija board thing . |
| 29 | Feel like I 've done a shift already . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've done a week 's supply , John . ’ |