Example sentences of "do [pron] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horses have done nothing all winter and it would do them so much good . |
| 2 | I ca n't stand husbands who come home and say ‘ Oh look you 've done nothing all day , only a bit of housework and looked after the child ’ . |
| 3 | And of course you 'd want some fun this evening , having done nothing all day . |
| 4 | Because I have spent the whole day since six o'clock this morning working , and working hard , and this … painted maypole has done nothing all day long and will do nothing tomorrow , except complain about those who do work . |
| 5 | She said nothing to me and after rehearsals I was still standing there ; I 'd done nothing all morning , and she called me into the office . |
| 6 | I 've done them all strawberry , all blackberry I mean |
| 7 | Oh right oh what do these people do it all week ? |
| 8 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 9 | The Milton Humberside , dammit , who used to Do It all night long ? |
| 10 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 11 | It stops you sitting on the beach and just doing nothing all summer . |
| 12 | and he 's doing it all day , seeing |
| 13 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 14 | Been doing it all week so I might as well get it over all in one week , like . |
| 15 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 16 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 17 | I hope you 're not doing anything all afternoon mother ! |
| 18 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
| 19 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 20 | It did it all day , or nearly . |
| 21 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 22 | Yeah who did it all day yesterday ? |
| 23 | You do it all bit by bit , if you do it all in one fail swoop , you think oh my . |
| 24 | We do n't do it once a year — we do it all year round — wherever the town councillors or the Abbot will pay us to put on a show . ’ |
| 25 | Other great prizes include a popular and practical Norfolk Greenhouse , garden tool chests from Norfolk Greenhouses ; a Honda F210 petrol-powered tiller ; Roper 's super-fast Hotterrotter compost-makers ; a Do It All spade , fork , rake and hoe for the winner , and products from Somerford , the garden furniture makers . |
| 26 | CONSIDERATION is being given by Powys ' highways department to providing a right turning lane for traffic on the A483 trunk road in Newtown , following concern expressed by Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council for the safety of pedestrians crossing the road between the Do It All superstore and the Safeways supermarket . |