Example sentences of "[verb] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have to spend a lot of money to look just nice looking I mean d' you know , er just you know nice appearing , clean appearing or something like that that will do and beauty most of it its come from inside . |
| 2 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 3 | When we want do it Independently , |
| 4 | It exists inside his head and he has done everything in his power to build a Dublin of the imagination that matches this vision . |
| 5 | EDF has done everything it can to make all of the French understand how much is at stake and enable them to compare the advantages and drawbacks of the various possible sources of energy . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's impossible to say what might be a fair mark on what Soft Day 's achieved , but he 's a nice horse and has done everything right so far , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything . |
| 8 | ‘ My view , ’ he says , ‘ is that Ripa has done everything correctly . |
| 9 | Since you arrived , ever since she picked up the … vibrations between us , that first lunchtime , she has done everything in her power to stir up trouble , including that episode in my office , and tonight 's performance . |
| 10 | ‘ Although his run scoring was not prolific , by his standards , he has done everything we could have asked of him , ’ said former master batsman Geoff Boycott . |
| 11 | ‘ The team has done everything I asked of them . |
| 12 | ‘ The poll tax is the Tory tax which Darlington Council has done everything to collect , including calling the bailiffs in . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 14 | The council , you say , has done everything it can . |
| 15 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 16 | A year later , the local press was singing his praises : ‘ He has done what some people thought could never be done — make the buses pay . |
| 17 | Then Markios said , ‘ Vander Poele has done what ? ’ |
| 18 | But Mr Clinton has done what needed to be done to be elected . |
| 19 | The second requirement is that the EP system should support annotations , and moreover that there should be provision for several sorts of annotation , e.g. the student 's annotations explaining why he has done what he has , and the marker 's annotations commenting on the student 's work . |
| 20 | Lawrence has done what he set out to do . |
| 21 | In the contortion of such reasoning , it is easy to lose sight of who has done what to whom and who in fact is the guilty party . |
| 22 | the knitting machine has done what we did by hand , well under fifty pound , I think that one sold at twenty nine and that 's five . |
| 23 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 24 | And the Borough Council as agents for the County Council has done what they can to offset problems and the scope for further measures is limited . |
| 25 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 26 | BEDALE 'S Paul Holdroyd , a well-known figure on the North Yorkshire scene and president of Snape AC , has done what most anglers only dream of and invested in a guest house in southern Ireland . |
| 27 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 28 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 29 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 30 | Stephen Leatherman , director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at the University of Maryland , has done them a favour , ranking America 's beaches for beauty , water temperature , quality of sand and the like . |