Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [vb infin] [adj] " 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 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 9 | We did nothing like that . |
| 10 | Moan about it and do nothing like all of them . |
| 11 | Yeah well , did everyone hear that ? |
| 12 | Did everyone hear that ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Did someone say this on here ? ? ? |
| 15 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 16 | Did did did , did somebody do that then ? |
| 17 | Did somebody get some copy out of Morley ? ’ |
| 18 | Did something go wrong ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did something go wrong ? ’ |
| 20 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 21 | So ten take away , if we did something like ten take away A add B , well that 's the same as ten take away A and then take away B. |
| 22 | Let's have a look at number five If she did something like this how much has she got to start to give . |
| 23 | Did something like this happen before ? ’ |
| 24 | No we do one like this , in this colour , Pyrex but a big one . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | so I have Sally , and , and er , her mum always cooks a meal in the evening so I , I do something like toasted cheese sandwiches or beans on toast or something like that at lunch time , but there was one time when she wanted peanut butter and , all her brother used to ask , I , her brother does n't come to me now , he stays at home cos he 's going on fifteen , and as he 's next door but one anyway , you know if , if anything goes wrong he can come along to me , but all he wanted was my homemade blackcurrant jam , and now he does n't come any more I 've got to actually give him |
| 27 | I hope we do something like thirty six . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |