Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] do a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That they are all up to date and er I 'll just do a final check up after the meeting .
2 Excuse me a second I 'll just do a quick
3 I 'll just do a few sketches , ’ she muttered .
4 Well I 'll just do a little trick .
5 ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie .
6 Before returning to the Cape , he had written ‘ I have been idle so long that I doubt if I shall ever do a single grand battement in my life again — I crack when I move . ’
7 I can not do a good job from a chair on a table !
8 Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree .
9 There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it .
10 You ca n't do a green all that
11 ‘ Oh , ' ’ said So-and-So , ‘ you would n't do a thing-like that . ’ ,
12 You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday .
13 It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through .
14 You can even do a stunning overhead kick !
15 You can then do a nice little shot to get closer on the hoop with red
16 Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know .
17 You can always do a little bit here and a little bit there to brighten it up . ’
18 And it 's more than er , and you can certainly do a better job than the Carlton so I mean , you do n't call , I mean , you do n't call him any competition at all I do n't but , you 've got to look at being able to do functions for two hundred .
19 Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs .
20 Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas .
21 It 'll only do A four .
22 Yeah , but he could probably do a two till ten shift , but the two would be alright , but you would n't want to go out ten o'clock at night and pick him up .
23 Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’
24 but it will not do a little bit
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