Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never managed to work out what it is unemployed women do during the day — ’ he gave a neutral laugh ‘ — except between five and seven , of course . ’ |
| 2 | Also , you can very the type of exercise you do during the week . |
| 3 | So , how does this help us with the circular rows we do during the cast on sequence ? |
| 4 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 5 | But I think we do as a council , support that Sports Centre very well at the moment , which we did n't expect to be doing . |
| 6 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 7 | What more can South Africa do as a country ? |
| 8 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 9 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 10 | We grow up to expect that , if we become a client of some professional service or other , that it is a voluntary thing , something we do as a matter of choice . |
| 11 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 12 | I wanted to be a winner when I played football and I still do as a manager . ’ |
| 13 | Well we do for a swim we 're going to a |
| 14 | We get the same royalties for a CD as we do for a cassette |
| 15 | Yeah , but you do for a programme . |
| 16 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 18 | C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing . |
| 19 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 21 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 22 | I think that 's what princes do for a living , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 23 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 24 | ‘ And what does good-for-nothing Sunil do for a living ? ’ |
| 25 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
| 26 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 27 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 28 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |