Example sentences of "we do [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 2 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 3 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We have maintained the low profile here because the level of publicity we received at the start would actually hamper the work we do at a community level . |
| 8 | An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level . |
| 9 | Erm , the other thing I 'd like to draw your attention to is para six point one , just a little tabulation there , because what they 're saying is that on the number of cuts per specification , that 's what exists now , er three hundred and twenty eight thousand , that 's about the same as this year , er if you go to the hundred millimetre cut , which is what we 're suggesting we do on a trial basis , the cost to the County Council will amount to another hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year . |
| 10 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 11 | manual expression ( the child is requested to ‘ Show me what we do with a … ’ ) . |
| 12 | Now , pedicures is really a manicure of the toes , but what we do with a pedicure , we actually rub away the hard skin that you may have on the bottom of your feet , on the side of your big toe , that 's usually where it builds up , or on the ball of the foot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We get the same royalties for a CD as we do for a cassette |
| 15 | Well we do for a swim we 're going to a |
| 16 | In short , we would wish to order and organize what we do in a morally respectable and defensible way . |
| 17 | Simply stated , only 20 per cent of the tasks we do in a day produce 80 per cent of the rewards . |