Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 2 | Brilliant budget ideas — do them in a weekend Incredible The steel halo that saved Lisa 's life |
| 3 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 4 | The supporters are not happy with that , they want to know the real truth and well , so do I in a way , because I do n't really know . |
| 5 | do you as a person responsible for the figures , ensure that they were adjusted ? |
| 6 | ‘ What on earth do you with a baby all day ? ’ asked a friend when he became a dad for the first time . |
| 7 | Can I jump from this , they 're all interconnected , over to question of magistrates , one of the questions in the notes , really , it points out that there are about , not quite , but er , about two third of magistrates are men , and about a third women , erm , is there , is that because of history , and shall , because they 're are more women than men , I mean logically , because there are more women than men in the community , there should be more women magistrates than men , should n't there , on the on the basis of presentation , I take it that , I do n't know the figures , but I take it that er , more and more women now are er , being , accepting , the called , of course , to be magistrate , you did n't have any choice once , do you in a way . |
| 8 | ‘ No longer do we as a profession support the termination of one individual to ease the discomfort and social inconvenience of the other . |
| 9 | ‘ Do we as a nation compete in the hi-technology , high value-added , high wage end of the industrial spectrum ? |
| 10 | Do they for a moment consider that most visitors to the like District want to feel surrounded by natives of the fells and not middle-class accents and protocol ? |
| 11 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 12 | But whether they do it on a Saturday I do n't know . |
| 13 | all they 're doing is erm , where people do it on a Saturday they , they wo n't do their , go football or something and then go on a Sunday , now I think it 's nice to have a , a day when nothing happens . |
| 14 | If I want to switch I tip from one bucket to the other , we 'll charge him eighteen pounds , and we 're absolutely right , as Gerald says , we do it on a bid to bid basis . |
| 15 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
| 16 | Developers could use the tool in-house , at the expense of buying a target machine , currently an RS/6000 , or have Echo do it as a service . |
| 17 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |
| 18 | Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant . |
| 19 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 20 | ‘ I do it as a matter of course . |
| 21 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 22 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 23 | Well we think you do it through negotiation with developers on an agreed location , and you do it through a brief . |
| 24 | we do it through a dealership , like if you want a Cortin if you want a Sierra you 've got to go to Cowlers or something you ca n't go to Ford |
| 25 | Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it . |
| 26 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 27 | Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine … |
| 28 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 29 | But I have , I , I 've ever since I 've retired I 've run a performing dance group of men and women erm who do it for a hobby . |
| 30 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |