Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 2 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 3 | As Francois Fenelon prayed : ‘ Gentleness is thy work , my God , and it is the work thou hast given me to do . ’ |
| 4 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 5 | However , when the garment was completed I did n't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing . |
| 6 | No , but I 've heard yours does . |
| 7 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 8 | Subject , however , to the limitations to which I have referred I do not see why any restriction should be placed on the type of order that could be made under section 6(2) . |
| 9 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 10 | Whilst I admit that not everyone of my class members have joined I do have a good percentage mostly I feel sure through loyalty to me as their teacher . |
| 11 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 12 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 13 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 14 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 15 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 16 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 17 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 18 | That is only what we would have expected them to do . |
| 19 | ‘ He may not have expected them to do that , ’ objected Noble reasonably . |
| 20 | But n no-one has approached me to do so . |
| 21 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 22 | I , who had protested I did n't want a doctor , now called after him , " Tell him to hurry ! " |
| 23 | no , oh Rick , Rick borrow bikes were n't we ? , so how come I done it ? |
| 24 | ‘ How come I did n't get prior warning of a major development in our relationship ? ’ |
| 25 | Yes , Pete did do the washing up while you were out — we would n't have expected you to do it . |
| 26 | ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’ |
| 27 | But I should n't have let you do that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Some people ask me about solos : ‘ How come you do n't play solos ? ’ or whatever . |
| 29 | How come you do n't fire him ? |
| 30 | ‘ You 've never had any trouble attracting the opposite sex , so how come you do n't have anyone in tow now ? ’ |