Example sentences of "do that and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's always the temptation to think you should n't have done that and try to go back again . |
| 2 | Rosemary Burns has been there , done that and got the T-shirt . |
| 3 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 4 | But only , as the last time she had done that and had kissed the child , to be told , ‘ You have a nice mouth , Mammy ; Daddy 's mouth is wet . ’ |
| 5 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 6 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
| 7 | Well those that are there can do that and contribute to some extent . |
| 8 | ‘ You could do that and get nothing , ’ Hope replied . |
| 9 | ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says . |
| 10 | It would mean seeing Alain again and she was n't sure if she could do that and retain any distance . |
| 11 | They did n't what he 's done , he 's thought well I 'll just do that and incorporate the sink in it . |
| 12 | ‘ Our backs were disappointing in some respects against Monaghan , ’ he chides , ‘ We gave away two goals within a couple of minutes and you simply can not do that and expect to win championship matches — it 's not just on . ’ |
| 13 | Tucker saw her do that and decided what kind of a woman he was dealing with . |
| 14 | Well , well anyway we 'll do do that and see see what the other 's like . |
| 15 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 16 | It 's probably you know better me to do that and make certain erm But if , if , if you were here , would anybody be prepared to do that ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's about time England adopted the attitude of : Why make Gazza track back and defend , when we could have other players to do that and let Gazza do what he 's good at . |
| 18 | Luke Calder 's presence at the station was a fact of life , and she had to learn how to handle it or give up her job , and pride would never allow her to do that and let him know he had won . |
| 19 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 20 | They decided to do that and leave afterwards . |
| 21 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 22 | So I decided to do that and started to feel so sick . |
| 23 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 24 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 25 | doing that and saying that , and that 's wrong . |
| 26 | Nan did that and buggered hers up . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century Anglican evangelicalism reinforced the attack , but it operated on the poor ; Methodism did that and worked in the hearts and minds of the poor . |
| 28 | A debtor who did that and swore that his all amounted to less than £5 would be brought before a court . |
| 29 | So if anybody you know did that and has n't yet repaid them I would strongly advise you to do that . |
| 30 | Yeah well do that and put up with it till then , and then just see how it goes . |