Example sentences of "[vb base] do an " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They want to do an operation , pet , ’ Gloria explained at visiting time .
2 Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse .
3 And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing .
4 ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END
5 And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing .
6 ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END
7 and er , in a , and then Top Gear they want to do an interview with him for er , erm racing for the disabled .
8 So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others .
9 Where beat officers come into play is where you 've got the non-urgent , what we call , the traffic , the non-urgent jobs , erm , where people can afford , maybe a couple of hours , it might be that they have to wait until the beat officer gets on duty could be a day or so 's time and they they do do an awful lot of work , and it 's an ongoing thing .
10 You 've done an abortion . ’
11 It seems that if you 've done an arts degree , apart from social science , then really you 're in line for jobs that science students go for as well , whereas arts students ca n't go for science degree jobs so you 've got more scope to apply for .
12 You 've done an accurate copy have n't except for this .
13 And the other thing about the I-s is if you make sure you put a dot on them on the top then if it looks a bit like if you people ca n't tell that you 've done an E or an I , if you 'd a dot on top it 's got to be an I .
14 We 've done an exercise on on s on comparing er bridge and works projects , and er a few Q S individual projects erm against er A C skills or I R C
15 He stood at the doorway regarding the room with approval before he said , ‘ Thank you , girls — you 've done an excellent job . ’
16 I take it you 've done an examination ? ’
17 ‘ I think you 've done an about-turn .
18 ‘ I 've done an awful lot of work , ’ admitted Faldo at the course where Jack Nicklaus won in 1967 and ‘ 80 .
19 Oh look Terry I 've done an advertisement in the back
20 I 've done I 've done an hour this morning and it 's just about jiggered me .
21 So you 've done an interview and the question is , ‘ Well , yes but , what do you feel about this , this food outbreak ?
22 And I 'm sure I speak on behalf of you all when I say thank you very much indeed to Robin , you 've done an excellent job , and we shall miss you .
23 Since then , the Chinese have done an immense amount of work , discovering that its crystalline chemical structure differs from those of other antimalarial drugs .
24 How do you comfort the person to whom you have done an injury , particularly if you reject the idea that your behaviour carried any cause for reproach ?
25 She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served .
26 ‘ All BNFL people and contractor companies involved have done an excellent job and I would like to express the company 's thanks .
27 One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia .
28 Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less .
29 Quite a phenomenal achievement for the party to pool that number of quite diverse opinions together , professional , Country Landowners Association , all the District Councils , have done an excellent job of unity and cooperation , and I think that 's very , very welcome indeed .
30 Well I do n't think they do because we 've got here some people who have done the er some people have done an hotel and I think it would be best to explain the whole thing to them
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