Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracey was in one of his self-pitying moods , and expected her to do something about it . |
| 2 | On the contrary , he looked at me admiringly , flourished his pen , wrote in the sum , turned the page , signed and asked me to do likewise on Jean-Claude 's account . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 4 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 5 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 6 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 7 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 8 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 9 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 10 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 11 | And helping them to do it , ’ said Breeze zealously ; but Gay shook her head . |
| 12 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 13 | He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred . |
| 14 | And handling them does n't get any easier . |
| 15 | He would go home and think what to do . |
| 16 | And make him do it , do it . |
| 17 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 18 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 19 | And goes what do you call them , fucking Whitney Houston ! |
| 20 | Their neighbour , the writer Julia Strachey , found them " congenial souls and seeing them does cheer one up " , although she recalled one evening when Eliot suddenly emerged in a dressing gown apparently " utterly distraught and Strindbergian , with his at-all-times remarkable manner accentuated into something ghostly and weird . |
| 21 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 22 | He punched her on the head and made her do pull-ups against a door frame . |
| 23 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
| 24 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 25 | Then Lydia , who was part of the group , had a go at me and said you had to put your whole being into Christ 's hands and trust him to do the rest . |
| 26 | On the positive side though , these politicians got things done , and got them done in detail ( the use by Kleon , then absent from Athens , of his son-in-law Thoudippos to move the complex reassessment decree of 425 implies efficiency and a refusal to trust to luck . |
| 27 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 28 | Think of people that have influenced you in the past , and got you to do things , which , if you look back , and you think , that was very clever . |
| 29 | Dr Umberto Saffiotti , an experimental pathologist at the National Cancer Institute at the time , said that type of no-effect level toxicology posed was ‘ developed during the Stone Age of toxicology ’ , and has nothing to do with self-replicating effects of carcinogens . |
| 30 | This is part of growing up and has nothing to do with a deep-seated homosexual tendency . |