Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 2 | Or feel they could do it ? |
| 3 | He does n't criticize the vice-president marketing 's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself . |
| 4 | She explained , and she showed us all those tiles and bowls , and the brush and comb he used to do his beard with . " |
| 5 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 6 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 7 | We are good at organizing and organizing we 'll do . |
| 8 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 9 | If you have height and space you can do anything . |
| 10 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 11 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 12 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 13 | ‘ But this gives me confidence and shows I can do well on grass . ’ |
| 14 | He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again . |
| 15 | and know you can do it in less than an hour , right to the bottom |
| 16 | However if they want to be juggled and redesigned we will do that at no extra cost . |
| 17 | The son of the family went to California , learnt what made the Californians tick , and swore he could do as well , if not better , back in France . |
| 18 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 19 | The girls continued to giggle and scream and run and hide and generally have fun with their father , whom they adored and knew they could do as they liked with — especially , Katya , the middle one and the liveliest . |
| 20 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Said a friend : ‘ It was two in the morning , we were drunk as hell and thought we 'd do a bit of shooting for a laugh . |
| 22 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |
| 23 | She liked the reflected glory of her daughter 's being with such a famous star , and thought it could do nothing but good for the girl 's future in the theatre . |
| 24 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 25 | I mean , you ca n't let them come here and think they can walk all over you , because then next time they come they 'll get a bit cocky and think they can do what they want . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 27 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 28 | I gave her all the papers , and erm , she said well , and that meanwhile had , spoken to me on the phone , and said she would do what she could . |
| 29 | She gave no address and said she could do nothing more to help her mother . |
| 30 | He 'ad a knife and said he 'd do me in if I did n't tell him why we steamed the letter open . |