Example sentences of "they do a " in BNC.

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1 Nor do they do a lot for me as erogenous zones .
2 Might they do a London Welsh ?
3 Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ?
4 And did they do any Did they do a trade comparable to the Cooperative ?
5 what do they do a bus shuttle ?
6 Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it .
7 Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it .
8 I think they 're they doing a good job , actually .
9 They did a take , and then another .
10 They did a wedding dance , folk songs and so on .
11 But they did a very rapid rejig , obviously , for the later editions .
12 Each time they did a take , or reshot to get an angle , it was necessary to smoke almost an entire joint .
13 They did a great deal of damage to vineyards , roads , bridges and houses and threatened the villages of St Alfio , Fornazzo and Macchia .
14 They did a nativity play and Joseph forgot his words — but it was ever so nice to hear them .
15 ‘ It was hard work but they did a fantastic job on me .
16 ‘ Those damned missionaries just about ruined everything , but they did a good job with the music .
17 But they did a whole bunch of things to us , like trying to sabotage our show .
18 They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years .
19 The US Marine Corps was responsible for the United States inter-war plans for amphibious operations ; and although they did a number of landing exercises in the 1930s , not until 1940 were they joined in these by the US Army 's 1 Division .
20 In the spring of 1942 , Major Gus March-Phillips , Major J. Geoffrey Appleyard , who served with 7 Commando in the autumn of 1940 , and Captain Graham Hayes had the SSRF in training at Wareham ( Dorset ) , where they did a lot of boat work , especially in dories .
21 Polo 's ‘ hole ’ selling started when they did a consumer survey asking : ‘ Which bit of mint do you like the best ? ’
22 They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London .
23 ‘ We thought they did a very good job , ’ says Richard Bourne , Toby 's father .
24 They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial .
25 A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them .
26 For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds .
27 They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go …
28 They did a switch on stage one night — Maddox got into a trunk tied hand and foot , but it was Luke who emerged .
29 While some thought that they did a good job , a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time .
30 And er er I think they they did a marvellous job .
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