Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] [conj] do " in BNC.
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1 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
2 | So I was put in a total quandary when my partners asked me to go out and do just that , ’ she says . |
3 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
4 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
5 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
6 | If you 're in for drugs , they pull your clothes off , tell you to turn round and do all sorts of things to you . |
7 | However it 's in their interests of course to allow you to get on and do your job . |
8 | There were anonymous letters to my parents , postmarked Chippenham , Corsham , Bath and London , telling them to watch out and do something about their son or there would be trouble for them . |
9 | A tremendous talent , but unless things were made very easy for him to get on and do things that he wanted to do , he would lose interest very quickly . |
10 | It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people . |
11 | Most of all they enjoyed the space we created for them to get on and do their work in relative peace . |
12 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |