Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever goes on eating anything they do n't like for long . |
| 2 | But these great footballing stars of yesteryear are all doing what they do second best — telling football jokes . |
| 3 | She was only doing what they do . " |
| 4 | you always , it 's difficult when were sat down doing nothing you do n't ask . |
| 5 | Erm , I 'll have some brochures going around , some leaflets going round just advertizing what we do but if , I 'd like to just mention to you that erm , there are other , other treatments that we do , of course , at the salon . |
| 6 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 7 | Nails , not liking what he did n't know , rejected them , disturbed , turned away . |
| 8 | She thought of him nicking the crisps , of him not caring what he did . |
| 9 | For a moment she thought that he was going to hit her , but she continued looking at him mutinously , not caring what he did . |
| 10 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I feel a pressure 'cause there ai n't that many people who 've been able to look , speak or represent the types of styles I have , but I ai n't doing this for everyone , I 'm just doing what I do best and that should be more than enough . ’ |
| 12 | Rather than , rather than face moving into Benefit where it is very fraught at times and in a situa , and coping with that as well as not knowing what you doing is n't nice . |
| 13 | I 'm not inviting anybody I do n't like ! |
| 14 | Can I no , not , not telling them what to do |
| 15 | All based on a perfect understanding between the wickets — and him not telling me what to do and me not telling him . |
| 16 | You 're not telling me what to do , and you 're not keeping Devlin here . ’ |
| 17 | And I 'll tell you he says I 'm not telling you what to do . |
| 18 | Slowly , hardly knowing what she did , Alexandra nodded . |
| 19 | ‘ You , ’ he answered , ‘ because you 're always telling me what to do . ’ |
| 20 | It did n't need much concentration , and all through the morning I kept getting interrupted by the thought of Oliver standing there not being able to say anything , and then practically shouting what he did . |
| 21 | From the point of view of the experiencing subject , the meaningfulness is not something of which he is conscious ; all he experiences is , first the word ‘ red ’ , then a mental image : there is nothing that could count as his internally and introspectably associating them which does not reintroduce the mysterious generality of thought . |
| 22 | Ideal , if you want to be down here , from there downwards , you 're probably better going back doing what you did before . |
| 23 | Even knowing what he did , Kirov found it difficult to see how the optical illusion had been managed . |
| 24 | Possibly but i i if , if you say it is a , i it 's an honest government and er er the tax collection is , is straightforward and honest , the government is then deciding what it does with that tax revenue . |
| 25 | Derek Jefferson was there doing what he did best — the hard sell . |
| 26 | Almost telling us what to do . |
| 27 | No self-respecting working educational body , much as it may desire to retain close and friendly relations with the Board ( of Education ) , Universities , etc. , can go on being hampered in its work by the increasing number of organisations concerned either telling it what to do , what it should not do , or advising it in both these directions … there is a grave danger of our movement ultimately being strangled by our friends . |
| 28 | The terrified young Frenchman tried to answer Sharpe 's questions , but either he knew very little or else he was cleverly hiding what he did know . |
| 29 | By being angry at our mistakes and mentally chastising ourselves we do not learn anything about why we fall . |