Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 2 | I 've recorded a lot of stuff with song writers whose work I like , but I 'll probably do a cover version as my first single because , as a TV presented I 'm bound to get a lot of flak at first . ’ |
| 3 | Well I thought I 'd just do a freezer shop anyway — just the basics basically plus one or two Little Extras , just the odd thing Derek likes , just in case … |
| 4 | I 'd never do a thing like that ! ’ |
| 5 | I would rather do a cross-word puzzle than try a revenue appeal . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I will probably do a film in America next year , ’ she confirmed late in 1989 . |
| 7 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 8 | You can even do a bit of water-skiing if you fancy it . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , you can even do a smash serve . |
| 10 | and when you 've finished it you can then do a picture about your |
| 11 | You can still do a lot , but you 'll need a different approach . |
| 12 | Modern methods are all very well , but you can still do a lot with a hammer and chisel . |
| 13 | When eavesdropping ( a vicarious ghost-life he goes in for ) , he hears Raskolnikov tell Sonya about the crime , and later , without openly referring to it , the potential suicide twits the actual murderer : Sell , you can certainly do a lot . ’ |
| 14 | One recalls Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , the potential suicide twitting the actual murderer with ‘ well , you can certainly do a lot ’ . |
| 15 | So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay . |
| 16 | alright , fair enough , if , if the , if the deformity is mobile that means you can move it , you can actually do a lot of manipulation and physiotherapy and that can work very well . |
| 17 | Today we 'll just do a visualisation and try to remove what 's left of your father 's blocking device . ’ |
| 18 | Well I think we 'll actually do a bit of a debrief , yeah ? we should be finished . |
| 19 | Sam ( RH ) : We could just do a year and everything but … you see … everything that might be happening then . |
| 20 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 21 | We will then do a deal with the employer to release the trainee back to us one day per week for training . |
| 22 | But they 'll also do a meal for four in your own home . |
| 23 | You 've got to knock some sense into them or they 'd never do a stroke . |
| 24 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 25 | he 'll maybe do a job by , by putting |
| 26 | nice personalities but he could now do a runner with our van could n't they ? |
| 27 | He was asked this question abotu ten years after the book came out and he said he 'd never do a sequal . |
| 28 | But this teams needs more continuity than up to now and it can still do a lot better . |