Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I better do a check for gas here . |
| 2 | ‘ I just do a crossword a day , ’ said Mr Pilkington , who was among about 180 contestants in the Leeds challenge . |
| 3 | I just do a lot of weights and stuff like that . |
| 4 | I just did a potty . |
| 5 | ‘ I just did a couple of wild things for the videos : I covered myself with a hundred thousand bees for the Flight Of The Bumblebee and I also walked on hot coals ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I once did a crossword in which all of the clues were susceptible of two quite different solutions . |
| 7 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 8 | A. T. I once did a month on the canal bank , looking after Tate and Lyle 's coal that was brought in when there was a strike on . |
| 9 | ‘ Through my early years , I always did a lot of running and I came to the conclusion that that was the reason for my injuries . |
| 10 | Made me laugh last night , he said erm I , I , I always do a load of spuds he said even if it 's |
| 11 | I still do a lot of recording , because I have a recording setup in my house and I 'm in there most every night I can . |
| 12 | But erm I still do , I still do a lot of knitting . |
| 13 | ‘ I also did a course at Leeds University . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I also did a world tour with Mike Oldfield which lasted over a year . |
| 15 | I also do a lot of aerobics and Emilio and I regularly play racketball . |
| 16 | I also do a lot of production work and I 'm currently working with all-girl rockers Lovecraft . ’ |
| 17 | I also do a paper-round six mornings a week . |
| 18 | aye , cos I even done a toilet with them , |
| 19 | I sometimes do a bucket shot , which means I do n't get my gun out and I shoot my leg off . |
| 20 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 21 | Do you know , I actually did a job in Belfast and I put a spade through a six-inch trunk cable and blacked out Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | yours truly did a bit of negotiation on that this week but more of that later maybe when we have er we have n't got any A O B's so while we 're on that subject |
| 23 | ‘ I never did a reading for you , did I ? |
| 24 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 25 | You obviously did a lot of work for that . |
| 26 | Ca n't you just do a find ? |
| 27 | And then you just do a run , you do n't have to go on to print it at all you just print it off . |
| 28 | So I guess you just do a directory of all the executable files and see if there 's anything in there erm but I like diagnostic programs . |
| 29 | a lot of his work is , sort of , rather than getting copies you just do a printout |
| 30 | Carl would you ever would you ever do a home run ? |