Example sentences of "do be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now sometimes what salesmen do is suggest the answer , do you do this ? |
| 2 | All these products do is to stop the damp from ruining decorations . |
| 3 | What you do is to fix a line of battens across the wall ( or right round the room ) just above skirting board level , securing them with partly-driven masonry nails so you can remove them later when the adhesive has set . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | What you do is hold the end of the stick and keep the arm more or less still . |
| 6 | Well , very often what is , we do is make the vehicle safe , er , by isolating the battery and so on , we may warn about petrol . |
| 7 | ‘ All you do is re-distribute the rubbish over a wider area . ’ |
| 8 | Functionality has nothing to do with that ; all that different kinds of functionality do is affect the forms which relative autonomy takes . |
| 9 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 10 | The defence is solid … remember we were playing Wimbledon … the last thing they do is give the defence an easy time — I thought they coped well and limited Wimbledon to a few shot from the edge of the box — which beeney coped with admirably . |
| 11 | Oh it should have a Mercury numbers in cos all they actually do is rent a B T line and pay for it . |
| 12 | These structural proteins are coded for by more orthodox ‘ late genes ’ ; all that the early genes themselves do is ensure the synthesis of a group of intermediate signal proteins , rejoicing in even more than usually barbaric names ( c-fos and c-jun ) . |
| 13 | I get up in the morning , first thing I do is light a cigarette . |
| 14 | First of all what you do is disturb the client , or put another way , you create a problem , and then you solve it , with a feature , and then you ask , what do you think , how do you feel ? |
| 15 | All you do is set the input gain to a reasonable level ( the green input level LED flashes gently if there 's too much signal ) and then use the plus/minus switches to set up the desired sound via the graphic . |
| 16 | The first thing I do is check the stocks , followed by date returns and er , you know , erm , get that done , out of the way , and start looking at the , of the night , and what have you , setting that up , and maybe the late night process , hand over from the branch manager , walk round doing any detail he wants me to do , and hand over from late nights . |
| 17 | What you do is to select the block of text that you wish to manipulate , ie you use the pointer tool and not the text tool , and then copy it to the Scrapbook via the Clipboard . |
| 18 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 19 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
| 20 | In good business , what you do is raise the money and then start the project . |
| 21 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 22 | But the next thing I do is buy a case on Famagusta Instant Golden Enriched Noodles . |
| 23 | What Scissormen do is take a series of chaotic noises , disturbed atmospherics and fragments of other people 's music , then hammer melodies and songs out of the cacophonous melée . |
| 24 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 25 | What these decoders actually do is take the input and assign one of four particular states . |
| 26 | Once you 've trained it like that to test it on this pattern all you do is take the pack into the system and see whether you can |
| 27 | All you do is string a conker and , by using it to hit opponents ’ conkers , see how many other conkers you can break . |
| 28 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 29 | The last thing they do is fire the person who took the risk . |
| 30 | Then all I do is mix a lot of sawdust with the oil in the gear-box and it runs as sweet as a nut . ’ |