Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've always wanted to try and do something like that — play eight-bar pop guitar solos . |
| 3 | Sometimes I hear something and I think it 's really different and exciting , and it inspires me to perhaps do something like that on the next record . |
| 4 | Yeah we 'll see if he 'll come in and do something like that again . |
| 5 | They would n't dare do anything like that . |
| 6 | And I have n't had these dreams in a long time , and I used to never do anything like that . |
| 7 | I ca n't see it though because you see I do n't do anything like this at all |
| 8 | We did nothing like that . |
| 9 | Moan about it and do nothing like all of them . |
| 10 | Yeah well , did everyone hear that ? |
| 11 | Did everyone hear that ? |
| 12 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 13 | Did someone say this on here ? ? ? |
| 14 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 15 | Did did did , did somebody do that then ? |
| 16 | Did somebody get some copy out of Morley ? ’ |
| 17 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 18 | Let's have a look at number five If she did something like this how much has she got to start to give . |
| 19 | Did something like this happen before ? ’ |
| 20 | No we do one like this , in this colour , Pyrex but a big one . |
| 21 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 22 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 23 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |
| 24 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
| 25 | We wo n't get any girls working here if we do something like that . |
| 26 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 27 | Now supposing then , this committee that John Major 's set up do something like that , and they get that down on paper . |
| 28 | Do something like that . |
| 29 | Well I think do something like that . |
| 30 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |