Example sentences of "and [pron] do this " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this bit I do before the lesson and I do this , clean it up afterwards . |
| 2 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 3 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 4 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
| 5 | To do this you have to specify criteria and you do this in an area designated the as criteria range where you enter the fieldnames you want to use in a search . |
| 6 | Erm using team resources erm and commanding respect and you do this by enthusiasm . |
| 7 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 8 | Part of the procedure is to re-present the image from time to time as its shape becomes clearer : ‘ In the days of Arab government Zuwaya distributed tax revenues to household heads , so that there should be no treasury ; and you did this ; and you did that … |
| 9 | And you did this with a three foot wide bucket ? |
| 10 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 11 | In Enzo 's mind , there is no one else at his level , so that any such pretensions are just lèse majest é'; , and lèse majest é'; , we know , is just a step up from insolence , and who does this little Austrian think he is ? |
| 12 | And she does this by telling the stories of her different heroes in a series of ever more tense situations of suspense , situations where the outcome is fearfully doubtful . |
| 13 | She had to ease her way past Fen 's masculine bulk to reach her objective , and she did this as swiftly as possible , feeling strangely uneasy at his proximity . |
| 14 | She had responsibility for training and managing her own Administrative Assistant , and she did this work with sensitivity , skill , patience and determination . |
| 15 | but you 'll see players who , I mean , I mean , did it the other day when I was playing and she did this , oh yes , she I said you 've moved it , I thoroughly accepted it was n't through , you should n't do that . |
| 16 | The idiom is significant : we attach meanings to linguistic expressions , and we do this by invoking some pre-existing knowledge or other , or some co-existing feature of the situation of utterance . |
| 17 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |
| 18 | so after these tests , and we did this last year , check the P K U , cretinism and cystic fibrosis , we 're going to look at P K U today , right , erm what it is , rub that off ? |
| 19 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 20 | As in Babylonia , this calendar was adapted to the sun by intercalating a thirteenth month from time to time , but this was left to local officials in the different cities to decide , and they did this individually and arbitrarily . |
| 21 | And they did this against all common and economic sense . |
| 22 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 23 | And they did this by practising er extensive female infanticide . |
| 24 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 25 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 26 | For Locke , then , ‘ general words signify … a sort of thing ’ ; and they do this by being a sign of an abstract idea or nominal essence in the mind , ‘ to which idea , as things existing are found to agree , so they come to be ranked under that name ; or … be of that sort ’ . |
| 27 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |
| 28 | And they do this in an atmosphere which is often biased against them , and which requires sacrifices that are not expected of men . |
| 29 | And they do this in accordance with cultural belief systems which are not always themselves orderly , or even rational . |
| 30 | ‘ Yet here we have a lad trying his best and they do this to him . ’ |