Example sentences of "do what i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've done what I came for , ’ she declared , marching out of the house . |
| 2 | It meant that I could still do what I regard as a worthwhile job . |
| 3 | And to this she had answered , ‘ I suppose I can do what I like with my own money . ’ |
| 4 | And although the sub-text of my increasing thinness ( which I chose to ignore ) read , ‘ I am doing this because I feel so helpless that not even my own body belongs to me ’ , the apparent text read to me , and increasingly to others , ‘ My body is my own and I can do what I like with it . ’ |
| 5 | She 's my daughter and I 'll do what I like with her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll do what I like with Silvia , and I 'd advise you not to interfere ! ’ |
| 7 | I can do what I like on these pages , and nobody on earth can prevent me . |
| 8 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 9 | My children should do what I say without arguing . |
| 10 | erm she says er right do what you want with yours , I 'll do what I want with mine . |
| 11 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 12 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't do what I want in my room alone . |
| 14 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 15 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 16 | Sunday was my day : I could do what I liked with it . |
| 17 | And er I thought I can do what I did at forty , and I did it , but look what I 've got now . |
| 18 | He says : ‘ I simply tried to do what I observed in my career in the straight theatre with some of the finest directors , particularly Peter Brook . |
| 19 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 20 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 21 | But I 've got no problem doing what I do at all . |
| 22 | I did what I had to . |
| 23 | I do what I like with any zek . |
| 24 | Therefore with generosity ( I give myself ) and gentleness ( I kiss the beast ) and no-shame ( I do what I do of my own free will ) and forgiveness ( he ca n't help himself ) . |
| 25 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |