Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that i [modal v] do " in BNC.
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1 | Explaining why he now supports the Grand Slam Cup , after refusing to compete a year ago , he said ‘ I have my word to the ATP that I would do everything I signed to do in my contract with them . |
2 | Can we just end with a a short story about the job that I used to do before I did this one . |
3 | One of the things that I used to do was train and I know the feeling , I know the excitement , I know the adrenalin that pumps round the body , when you go in for the kill . |
4 | If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ? |
5 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
6 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
7 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
8 | I know that if I wanted to come back here this is the time that I could do so . |
9 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
10 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
11 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |