Example sentences of "and [v-ing] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 2 | What they do n't like is turning up at the House of Commons and having to do some work , because they ca n't stand the pressure . |
| 3 | Said , ‘ I 'd like to have tomorrow morning to say goodbye to my father and to Laura and having done that , I 'd like to die tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 4 | And having done that , you repeated it all night . |
| 5 | And having done that , you can then pull the pipette away , as shown here , and you 're left with a bleb of membrane in which you 're now recording in the so-called outside-out mode , which is the exact converse of the inside-out mode . |
| 6 | And having done that , you then need some people , in fact , so you do need the two types of people and if you are the team leader , you have to find some way of getting them to work together . |
| 7 | And having done that daunting task , he then attempted the even more daunting task of putting all this information together into this enormous book , and it is , as you see before you , a very hefty tome . |
| 8 | Make no price offer at this stage , but indicate that you might make one after consideration , and having done some sums . |
| 9 | month of December was sort of off and trying to do odd things and then she went down with this , this flu er which was progressively worse since the new year . |
| 10 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 11 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |