Example sentences of "and do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But er no it seems strange you 're dealing with a man who 's got your future in his h in his hands , yet he can turn round and do stupid things like that , and totally just disregard the human aspect if you like . |
2 | I can decide that I 'm gon na go to church twice on a Sunday , and , once , during the week or , however many times , and I 'm gon na spend an hour doing this , and an hour doing that , I 'm gon na go round and do good deeds and help people and help and all the rest ! |
3 | And quite quite honestly our top earners are top earners because they wo n't sit back and do one advertising deal a day and say , Hey are n't I clever . |
4 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
5 | Oh , I suppose I better go and do that ironing ! . |
6 | Did you ever decide whether you were going to go and do that course . |
7 | I 'm just going to give you a couple of things that you can use for each of these phases , and when you get used to them , you can really spread out and do all sorts of other exciting things . |
8 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
9 | Zimbabwe and other African countries are now making the same mistake , and inviting Swedes to come over and do progressive things to their economies . |
10 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
11 | He was working in Legastat which was a photocopying office in London and when he needed the money , he 'd go and do odd bits and pieces for them , but was not very happy with his circumstances . |
12 | Father-of-three Sam never forgot her kindness and popped in every day for FORTY YEARS to chat and do odd jobs . |
13 | Do n't try and do any sums on it and think ooh I 'll square one and add it on half the other . |
14 | Well shall we go through and do some clearing up then ? |
15 | I said , ‘ yes , jolly good , perhaps you can come and do some painting with the residents ’ . |
16 | Got ta try and do some transcription transcribing |
17 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
18 | He suggested that we should get together and do some writing , so I said yes — I mean , who would n't ? ! |
19 | erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm |
20 | He 's got to go out and do this shopping with his bad leg . |
21 | you all to try and do this time is to avoid if you can mouthing words , mouthing dialogue . |
22 | But there 's , there 's people people holding a shotgun to our heads saying yeah I 'll come and do this job and I want x . |
23 | The deal involved a transfer fee plus a complicated sponsorship package , which required Keegan to advertise and do promotional work for Scottish and Newcastle Breweries . |
24 | I said we could select the venues , he could write his own cabaret show ; he could go out and do 20 minutes and pull £100 a week , which was a lot of money in the 60's . |
25 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |
26 | He said : ‘ The people coming to the party were a bit daft and probably would have picked it up and done some damage with it . ’ |
27 | On the areas that we might like to think about design and also delivering training is the different ways people learn and to do that go through learning styles . |
28 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
29 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
30 | Large numbers of calculations are to be done , so that the design aim is to choose a word size which gives suitable precision , and to do all arithmetic in the most efficient way , using fixed or floating.point binary format . |