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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm using team resources erm and commanding respect and you do this by enthusiasm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they do this in an atmosphere which is often biased against them , and which requires sacrifices that are not expected of men . |
| 13 | And they do this in accordance with cultural belief systems which are not always themselves orderly , or even rational . |
| 14 | ‘ Yet here we have a lad trying his best and they do this to him . ’ |
| 15 | As with writing , structures of practice construct meanings , and they do this by what they leave out , as well as what they include . |
| 16 | But you look at the diagram they 've given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit . |
| 17 | And I mean I know the screens are flickering in the Halifax and the Bradford and Bingley e even as we speak , and they do this fabulous analysis , you know you can see that to , to go for the repayment is not as efficient as the endowment , but it 's all a theoretical exercise . |
| 18 | DNA patterns , or genes , exert their effects by influencing the course of events in the chemical factory , and they do this via their influence on the three-dimensional shape of protein molecules . |
| 19 | As we shall see in a moment , one significance of the parallel markets is that they make the Bank 's monetary control operations , at least in principle , more difficult and they do this in at least two ways . |
| 20 | These are what we want to do , you know , work hard and they do this sort of thing . |
| 21 | a Tobby and they do this body camping , they have to do it early in the morning or late at night when it 's cool and it produces this liquid which verbella it 's already fermenting and at this |
| 22 | so he 's up in the air and they do this . |
| 23 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |