Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but if if we take the dog with us go up the heath and then I go to the hairdressers erm you do n't need a haircut anyway do you ? |
| 2 | ‘ I thought about it , ’ says Chris , ‘ and , to be honest , I wanted to find a reason not to do it . |
| 3 | Bloody hell she looks a bit well does n't she ? |
| 4 | The embryonic Encina , it believes , with far fewer users than Tuxedo , certainly has a lot more to do to win the mindshare it needs . |
| 5 | Just have a quick slosh , well hardly even needs a slosh round does it ? |
| 6 | It would be very long-winded if we had always to answer a question like Do you like mangoes ? with a sentence like Yes I like mangoes or Yes I think I like mangoes . |
| 7 | but it does matter a bit though does n't it ? |
| 8 | Well I remember when we first met we wanted to go and do a dissertation together did n't we ? |
| 9 | I had to send her a greetings telegram , so that she would not be alarmed at the sight of the envelope , saying : DARLING MUM I AM MARRIED TO MY MUSE AND HAVE NO INTENTION OF SEEKING A DIVORCE SO DO N'T WORRY I 'LL BE A BACHELOR GAY FOR ME REST OF MY LIFE LOVE JIM . |
| 10 | I mean we would n't of known , I never saw that erm , you know diamond thing with , four , I mean even then I when we bought them I was thinking four sixty fives , that 'll be two sixty and erm three sixty , so you save a bit really do n't you ? |
| 11 | Did you see the bit where what should a man that wears a wig never do ? |
| 12 | I 've still got a bit more to do , you know ? |
| 13 | Ken 's got a bit more to do then ? |
| 14 | Wonderful have you got a typewriter here do you think I could use |
| 15 | But I 've still got a lot more to do . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Course they 're not the only reasons , but those fings 'ave got a lot ter do wiv it . |
| 17 | I mean , as a guitar player you always tend to listen to other guitar players , and you can spend a lifetime just doing that , but once you start translating from other instruments , then that 's a whole other thing . |
| 18 | They 'd had a match though did n't it ? |
| 19 | When turning a corner always do so with the needle down . |
| 20 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 21 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 22 | You do n't want a doughnut though do you ? |
| 23 | Mind you though , that Billy Sullivan 'ad a lot ter do wiv it . |
| 24 | This is played from the Critical Parent where someone is apparently praising a job well done but spoils the effect by pointing out a relatively insignificant imperfection . |
| 25 | When he gets in a er a punch up he goes a bit fucking do lally . |
| 26 | it goes a bit faster does n't it , the next er er and a couple of bits after . |
| 27 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 28 | and then she got a joiner in to do it , but you know that |
| 29 | You know a lot probably to do this . |
| 30 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |