Example sentences of "[pron] do be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 2 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |
| 3 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 4 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 5 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 6 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 7 | Everything we did was of the very lightest weight however heavy the humour . |
| 8 | Well what I do is like put it on a tray , right what we do is in the night right and if you 'd stayed up late I 'd put cheese |
| 9 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 10 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 11 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |
| 12 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 13 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |