Example sentences of "[noun] and they [vb mod] do " in BNC.

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1 And , you know get reasonable money and there were there were still rented rooms of a sort , but she could find somewhere , of a sort , to live with other kids and they could do what they jolly well liked !
2 ‘ The gipsies wo n't appreciate my help and they 'll do nothing to assist me , but this sounds as though it 's a very serious assault .
3 They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him .
4 in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys .
5 Ministers make excuses in their own interests , but they are responsible for these matters and they should do their job properly .
6 Someone else likes playing lead and bass guitars , so you build a guitar with two necks and they can do both . ’
7 What you want to do is ring up the Sunday Times and get a reporter round and he 'll get a scandal story and they 'll do something
8 Wendy will do the computer bit and they 'll do the counting bit .
9 If they find a cure for say , lung cancer they 'll just have to chase just a tiny bit and they will do cancer .
10 You can tell them to fire the building and they 'll do it and watch themselves burn .
11 Mr Stant of course , used to knock the goals in for Hereford and they could do with some of his sharpshooting right now .
12 Liverpool and Birmingham , Cropper and Sturge , worked together through these meetings ( 2,000 at Liverpool ) to ‘ have a powerful effect on Parliament and they must do their duty ’ .
13 There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look .
14 We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it …
15 Because was before the observations of Mr it just that you 're going back to cabinet government anyway cos you say t take a few on each committee , just have a few small committees and they 'll do the job .
16 And at that stage you can say no thank you and our advice is take the report and then go to another investment advisor and they will do precisely the same .
17 Controlling risk is still the first priority and they can do a substantial amount themselves .
18 Sheridan said : ‘ The team did very well without me last season and they can do the same again .
19 landlords and they used to do whatever they wished to do .
20 I asked people if th if they would like a complimentary copy of the Saga magazine and all their brochures and they can do so by er , members like myself we 're asked from time to time , do we know any friends who would like a copy ?
21 It is possible for the other European Community partners to over-rule France and they should do that .
22 It is their property and they can do with it as they please .
23 But what ever happens at the end of the day , neither is going on the scrap heap because they are a diamond , so someone will snap up a diamond and it will retain it 's value and they will do very well .
24 Er they 're competitive quote and they 'll do the kitchen and unlike some you know , where they get subcontractors in for the joinery , the electrics
25 Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right .
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