Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 2 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 3 | But what white kids did when they took that form of music was to quote white literature which is head stuff , and nothing to do with what 's under your balls . |
| 4 | For example , what would the courts do if Party A obtaining 40 per cent of the vote gained 60 per cent of the seats in the legislature because the remaining 60 per cent of the vote was split between three other parties , and then it embarked on a legislative programme which was discriminatory , anti-libertarian and anti-democratic ? |
| 5 | But what should parents do if they believe their children 's friends are having a bad influence on them ? |
| 6 | By bringing still more evidence to light , I hope I have made some contribution towards reforming an outmoded and unfair system , one that permits arrogant and unscrupulous commissioners to do as they please . |
| 7 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 8 | The world 's climate depends on whether China and India can develop without producing tonnes of CO 2 , as the industrialised countries did while they were developing . |
| 9 | What do elephants do before they make love ? |
| 10 | I can get the beds done when I 'm back . ’ |
| 11 | I think in essence I mean many of our students are doing nothing different to what students at other universities do when they go and have a private party in their lodgings . |
| 12 | What , I wonder , would the writers of these pieces do if they had they had to co-ordinate an aid programme for Mozambique ? |
| 13 | When Jesus had returned to his Father the apostles did as he had told them and returned to the city . |
| 14 | This is after all what the first balletmasters did when professionals appeared on stage and were no longer surrounded by the court where all eyes were focused on the king ( see page 76 ) . |
| 15 | We do n't have a in our business as many other retailers do where for instance after Christmas may be and other such things to clear we do n't have that , so there is n't any merchandise that 's been sold since Christmas that has been sold because we do n't want it to be in the inventory post year end it 's it 's just generating trade by being discount price left so therefore to a certain amount your question would be has the post Christmas and it was pre Christmas no material difference we 're very satisfied with the gross margins since Christmas we have n't had to take any extraordinary measures to generate this erm this level of sales increase that 's being achieved at constant margin a flat margin |
| 16 | The heavy mortar in the orchard was sounding its usual musical note as the high explosive left its barrel to fall in the enemy positions a short distance away , no doubt causing casualties , just as their mortars did when the high explosive landed in the Commando positions . |
| 17 | Mr Porter had said if loyalists did so they would get no support from the House or the country . |
| 18 | For what else could so many well-connected old buffers do if not manoeuvre themselves into and around the Senate ? |
| 19 | THE vague and ill-considered commitment to dilute the Government 's industrial relations reforms which was endorsed so easily yesterday by the Labour Party conference will return to haunt the party 's leaders , rather as the question of nuclear weapons did until it was , apparently , laid to rest earlier this week . |
| 20 | And as I say er seven people seven workers did when they all that trouble started the bread . |
| 21 | I have no hard and fast views on the matter and I undertake to consider it , but there are no immediate plans to do as the hon. and learned Gentleman suggests . |
| 22 | But we also acknowledge that there is more to politics than choosing the next Government and what that Government attempts to do when in office . |
| 23 | I see them down to their dinner and I have the pots done before I take a bite |
| 24 | It would be so much easier to get things done while she was on the spot . |
| 25 | He knew he had to get things done before it was too late . |
| 26 | ‘ We can only get things done if there is sufficient public clamour and we will only get that if the public is aware . ’ |
| 27 | It is a mix of staff , says Shandell , which also helps get things done when dealing with ministerial bureaucracy . |
| 28 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 29 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 30 | IT MAY surprise Tony Parsons to know that real feminists have more important things to do than comment on the way he holds a teapot . |