Example sentences of "and [pron] do [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Later , Deborah thought she understood more precisely Laura 's vision of company structure while she was abroad ; ‘ she had Moira to sell more , Meirion to produce more and me to do it better ’ . |
2 | You just pull the strings and I do what ever you want . |
3 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
4 | ‘ I do it and I do it well , ’ he figures . |
5 | ‘ And I do it so that people know I 've been around and I 've kept my eyes open . ’ |
6 | And I did it again in this case , with Downes . |
7 | Mm , Tim and I did it together |
8 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
9 | And which do you regularly ? |
10 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
11 | And you do something pretty clever with it usually but if they 're just added , one bit at a time . |
12 | I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it ! |
13 | ‘ And you do it so well . |
14 | At Charwelton you saved her life and you did it yet again by organising a search for her after she was attacked . |
15 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
16 | ‘ And she did it willingly … ’ |
17 | She did it last time , and she did it again . ’ |
18 | Leaks were a constant hazard of the first 1979–83 Thatcher Government and none did us more damage than this . |
19 | So effectively we put in what is a fair price , and we get the job , and we do it normally within the price or within a slight overspend . |
20 | er it got terribly out of hand in the 19th century ; people throwing eggs from the top of the tower , the choristers and the people from the town blowing trumpets and all sorts of things , really riotous. er so it was reformed in 1844 er no more rotten eggs then and we do it very much as then ; facing the rising sun which was beautiful |
21 | These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity . |
22 | You will know the work that goes into preparing even a short document like that ; and we did it fast , so that the news could reach people while still hot . |
23 | And we did it and we did it jointly for for security , that we agreed the figure |
24 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
25 | Looking for a suspicious boat was clearly a job for the River Police , and they did it thoroughly . |
26 | And they did it away from home after trailing 12–3 at half-time |
27 | Admittedly , we on the ground were not the ones who put their lives in danger every night , but as far as the air crew were concerned it was a job they had volunteered to do and they did it willingly , believing that every effort counted in the long run . |
28 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
29 | I think they 've filled it in yeah and they did it quite smooth , pity they did n't do this one as well while they were I did n't quite understand it |
30 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |