Example sentences of "and [vb base] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 2 | Straight afterwards we headed home , from where the Diary is being written , to welcome the bairns back from school , make their tea , and while doing the washing up generally box them round the lugs . |
| 3 | He might like the proposal you have in mind , and decide to do the same on his property . |
| 4 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 5 | So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others . |
| 6 | Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain . |
| 7 | So the resit people , could they go next door and start doing the resits . |
| 8 | Why can children handle money situations in town on Saturday and fail to do the ‘ sums ’ in school on Monday ? |
| 9 | So you do need to look at that page very carefully and I still get tied up sometimes and have to do a few crossings out . |
| 10 | and the eighty eight group in favour of happy and have to do the best , certainly |
| 11 | Yes , the Germans have always had gigantic and very refined apparatus and have done a vast amount of hard work . |
| 12 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 13 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
| 14 | Excel is clever enough to complete a sequence for you ; type in the first heading , mark the cells into which the sequence is to be extended , and Excel does the rest . |
| 15 | I did a great deal of work for my constituency as an MP and plan to do a lot more . |