Example sentences of "do [pron] [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her I 'll do my own thing , I 'm not letting them do it for me . |
| 2 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 3 | ‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well . |
| 4 | Well I was , there 's nothing to say they 've got to all stick together they can all do their own thing ca n't they ? |
| 5 | She might wan na go off and do her own thing so erm I said you just think on , I said , this woman has got her own house and everything , she 's got |
| 6 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 7 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 8 | Perhaps you would like to go and do your own thing . |
| 9 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to be able to do my own thing — and to be able to play with other people . ’ |
| 11 | when I , I was staying out late at night , I was going against my mother , every word she said it was wrong you know I wanted to do my own thing and |
| 12 | Never one to miss an advantage , Eva stopped wearing uniform , vowed she would never again be seen in a bonnet and decided to do her own thing . |
| 13 | Despite being part of a happy close-knit Jewish family , Alison could n't wait to go out in the world to do her own thing . |
| 14 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 15 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |
| 16 | Maria Harding looks at some of the great adventures for those who like to do their own thing |
| 17 | They left to do their own thing and ended up signed to US label Geffen in '86 . |
| 18 | Over here , everyone 's too influenced by everyone else to do their own thing . ’ |
| 19 | Pruning to the same hard degree invariably results in an explosion of growth , and such varieties are really much better given enough space elsewhere to do their own thing , and be treated as shrub roses . |
| 20 | Species roses These and varieties of species , being much nearer to their natural original , are capable and best left to do their own thing . |
| 21 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |
| 22 | Keyboard , mouse and joystick are supported , but every now and then the planes seem to do their own thing ! |
| 23 | tutors to do their own thing ? |
| 24 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 25 | Having left its Uniplex Ltd sibling to do its own thing since it acquired the the firm back in December of last year , the Unix office software firm 's new parent , Birmingham-based IMI plc has taken matters in hand , appointing its own board director of computing operations , Roy Amos , as group chairman of Uniplex . |
| 26 | But I do know the difficulty the Major has in getting away to do his own things . |
| 27 | My husband wandered off to do his own thing , and I thought I 'd see what Koi and Goldfish were on offer outdoors . |
| 28 | He 'll eat fish , but he wo n't eat meat and erm , so probably likes a he likes to do his own thing , I said well you ought to book in a hotel and |
| 29 | Or if you want to do your own thing you can use the centre simply as a guest house . |
| 30 | For a bigger event , it is always better to go for an empty room that allows you scope to do your own thing rather than a place which has limiting fixed features . |