Example sentences of "[verb] do [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 2 | A party seeking to recover his property , which may be held , for example , by someone who has done work on it , will have first to issue proceedings , and if it appears that a lien arises , the court may order that the party seeking to recover may pay into court , to abide the event , the amount in respect of which the security is claimed together with such further sum by way of interest and costs as the court directs , and upon such payment , the property be given up . |
| 3 | Judge Bryan Prior has done society a favour not just by locking Michael Watson away , but by giving a warning to every mugger . |
| 4 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 5 | Besides Snoopy , Praxis has done MS-DOS emulation work for Sparc cloners Mars , Tatung and Hyundai . |
| 6 | It 's interested in software , medical , retail and telecoms and has done PeopleSoft , Forte Software , Quarterdeck and Teradata. +1 415 854–6366 |
| 7 | Usually the weathering has done part of the job , but thereafter a combination of small chisels and stout needles ( to prise away individual grains ) is needed . |
| 8 | She addressed a group of clergy from the Diocese , sharing with them her experiences of bereavement as a religious , a hospital chaplain , a nurse , and also someone who has done research into the needs of the bereaved . |
| 9 | Although nobody has done research upon the development of brain connections in the beaver , they have done this kind of research on other animals , like worms . |
| 10 | Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death . |
| 11 | From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands . |
| 12 | He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment , and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean he has done time . |
| 14 | Police were let into the flat by 35-year-old Stephen Knox , who said : ‘ Simon has done funeral work for our company . |
| 15 | Andy Horne of Barclays Bank said : ‘ This slating has done sterling no good at all . |
| 16 | With his Gere-good looks ( the 27-year-old has done model assignments for Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein and commercials for Miller beer and Coke ) Parrish was deemed perfect despite having no movie background whatsoever . |
| 17 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 18 | There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm . |
| 19 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath , to save life or to destroy it ( Mark 3:4 ; Luke 14:3 ) . |
| 20 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath ; to save life or to kill ? |
| 21 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 22 | ‘ I know what their intentions are , which are to enhance the individual 's life so that collectively we are all enhanced — to try to do stuff out of the mould of the old politics , which the three main parties are dealing with . |
| 23 | Everything was argued round the premise that existing union members should not have to pay the price of an EOP , and we should n't be expected to do management 's job for them . |
| 24 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 26 | But what sort of machine do you need to do justice to the application . |
| 27 | They divide viruses into the ‘ mostly harmless ’ which display messages , ‘ fatal distraction ’ which mean to display messages but accidentally cause loss of data or crash the computer , and ‘ information terrorist ’ which are designed to do harm . |
| 28 | Broken down in your liver , and your liver has to do work . |
| 29 | I mean we 've tried to write down everything she does but it 's so varied I mean , telephone calls and she has to do telephone calls . |
| 30 | Hence the attraction , if one has to do night duty , of weekend work . |