Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] do [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I 'll do some work at home . |
| 2 | If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them . |
| 3 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 4 | You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty . |
| 5 | ‘ I would not mind a few more so I could do more work at the Exchange . |
| 6 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 7 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 8 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 9 | Well I shall do some stuff down this garden . |
| 10 | Well , he 's doing it , last wee I would n't mind doing the Wednesday actually cos I can do that sort of you know , student discos , you know , so |
| 11 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
| 12 | So you 're quite happy with that , one hundred , two hundred , three hundred , four hundred , five hundred , six hundred oh I can do this standing on my head , right and you s you stop concentrating so much , and you 've gone up to , so that should be a seven hundred |
| 13 | I would imagine that nobody can do that gig without the inevitable EC comparison … |
| 14 | ‘ Believe me , ’ she told him , ‘ you may do more good to the firm if you stay here . |
| 15 | Which is why you must do that sort of That that 's probably all you need for that bit . |
| 16 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 17 | When offered a post in the Labour government of 1964 she refused , saying that she could do more fighting for the government in Liverpool . |
| 18 | I do n't think you 'd do any harm to us . |
| 19 | You could do that sort of thing then . |
| 20 | He 's the sort of creep who 'd do that kind of thing . ’ |
| 21 | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor , she was certain then that she did n't even like Ven Gajdusek — much less was she attracted to him ! |
| 22 | Neighbours who will do this service for you should use the back door , where there 's less chance of them being seen going in and out . |
| 23 | Now that one , you 're doing , sort of doing this bit , erm , you can do that bit on the calculator and then do times six hundred . |
| 24 | And then if you can do that you can do any problem of this sort ca n't you ? |
| 25 | You can do this route in two parts Penicuik to Roslin Glen , and Roslin Glen to Bonnyrigg . |
| 26 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 27 | the money that we save on on on the residential bit we could perhaps say , right then we 'll do that bit in four days . |
| 28 | And the other one , we have n't started the work for yet , because now we 're starting into water , so , erm , in the next ten days we 'll do some work on water and that 's the water board . |
| 29 | So , we 'll do some thinking about that then . |
| 30 | ‘ We used to do that sort of thing in Paris . |