Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] do a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 2 | The way we 're going to do this , I 'll kick it off , I 'll be standing in here , and , and I 'll do a little act , okay ? |
| 3 | I could do a little costing exercise for them . |
| 4 | and also I can do a little bit of a fiddle |
| 5 | A further idea is to make a saw out of cardboard so , when the child arrives , he or she can do a little jig with the saw or , possibly better , you could put strings on the saw and have the saw doing the jig . |
| 6 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps we should do a little bit of matchmaking , ’ she suggested . |
| 9 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
| 10 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 11 | Five million , or if , five million , we might do a little bit of reinsuring on that one , do n't quote me . |
| 12 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 13 | Erm , we can do a little design round here . |
| 14 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 15 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |