Example sentences of "that [pers pn] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 2 | ‘ It is suitable that I do something involving a black rhino to raise the money . ’ |
| 3 | I speak without volition , in the same way that I do everything else . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 5 | It just happens that I do which is really why I was interested in doing the book . |
| 6 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 7 | But your , your point about not being very er positive the interviews that I do I , I do in a very relaxed manner . |
| 8 | ‘ I think that it is crucial that I do it . |
| 9 | I mean people are a bit narrow in this respect you know they do n't like people to talk about it too openly — but I do because I think it 's important but the trouble is that — erm — that 's not really systematic in the sense that I do it but how many other people do it you see . |
| 10 | Erm , I know that the way that I do it every time |
| 11 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean we have n't had flowers in the house for four months and you never suggested before that I do it ? ’ |
| 13 | Erm , I certainly do n't do it , the way that I say that I do it . |
| 14 | I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker … |
| 15 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 16 | That I did it . |
| 17 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 18 | Yes that I did I bought a mix |
| 19 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 20 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 21 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 22 | In fact , I do n't think that I 've mentioned anything since March , but I am not sure that I did anything really productive during April . |
| 23 | And she says that she does what she can in her own way , she tries her best to do what she can to help . |
| 24 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 25 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 26 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 27 | Thi a I have to say that she does it all the time and she goes , looks around . |
| 28 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 29 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 30 | We read that she intended , in Hamlet 's words , to ‘ leave betimes ’ , and that she did what she intended . |