| HAVE | |
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| have a bath (or esp. AmE take) | 'She's probably upstairs having a bath.' |
| have (your) breakfast | 'We usually have breakfast in the kitchen.' |
| have (your) dinner | 'We had dinner and then went for a walk.' |
| have a drink | 'I'll collapse if I don't have a drink soon.' |
| have (an) experience | 'He has no experience of running a large company.' |
| have fun | 'You can't stop people from having fun.' |
| have a holiday | 'It's almost a year since we had a real holiday.' |
| have an interview | 'I've had six interviews but no one has offered me a job.' |
| have a lesson | 'Every morning we have three fifty-minute lessons.' |
| have (your) lunch | 'Isn't it about time we had lunch?' |
| have an operation | 'Before I had the operation I could hardly walk.' |
| have a party | 'On Saturday we're having a party.' |
| have a picnic | 'If it's sunny we could have a picnic.' |
| have a shower (or esp. AmE take) | 'It only takes me a minute to have a shower.' |
| TAKE | |
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| take/do an examination | 'Why do we have to take so many tests?' |
| take (your) medicine | 'Don't forget to take your medicine.' |
| take a pill | 'He refuses to take sleeping pills'. |
| take/do a test | 'The last test I took was a disaster.' |
| MAKE | |
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| make an effort | 'I had to make a big effort not to laugh.' |
| make a journey | 'It was the first journey he'd made all on his own.' |
| make a mistake | 'He has made a serious mistake.' |
| make a noise | 'How can one small child make so much noise?' |
| make progress | 'I made very little progress at the start of the course.' |
| DO | |
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| do your best | 'Don't worry, Tim. Just do your best.' |
| do (or cause) damage | 'The storm did a lot of damage to the crops.' |
| do an exercise | 'Have you done your exercises today?' |
| do an experiment | 'To do this experiment, you'll need two eggs.' |
| do (sb) good | 'The holiday has done him a lot of good.' |
| do harm | 'A scandal would do his reputation a lot of harm.' |
| do your homework | 'Have you done your homework yet?' |
| do a job | 'I've got one or two jobs to do this evening.' |
| do the/some shopping | 'Jake has gone into town to do some shopping.' |
| do research | 'We need to do a lot more research.' |
| do things | 'We've done lots of different things today.' |
| do your training | 'Where did you do your training?' |