Example sentences of "to do [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
2 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
3 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
4 | It pays to do the first work well , of course , for if there are frequent digging-out excavations you , in effect , sever the burrow systems and then fill them in . |
5 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |
6 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
7 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
8 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
9 | Now before you go racing ahead there 's a couple of things that I need to tell you , so can I show you how to do the first one , and then you can race on with it . |
10 | as er , as , as , as doing something erm but erm yeah it 's certainly possible to er to do the first years . |
11 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
12 | Erm , can you get Jeff to do the first soldering for you ? |
13 | when do you have to do the first ? |
14 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
15 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
16 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
17 | ‘ They all rushed off to do the next scene . |
18 | To do the last is presumably , in Hume 's words , to feel his self 's ‘ continuance in existence ’ . |
19 | The great majority of solicitors continue in their traditional ways , making their staple living from conveyancing , probate , advising middle-class clients in minor disputes and business affairs , and litigation — though some firms prefer not to do the last if they can help it . |
20 | Erm , right , who 'd like to do the last one , Tracey . |
21 | Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter . |
22 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
23 | Industrial workers in general used their shorter working week to do a second job . |
24 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
25 | The rest of the day is free to do a second job , un-taxed . |
26 | There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft . |
27 | Now , if I 'm prepared to work that hard , why do these young writers think they do n't need to do a third draft ? |
28 | " He has asked to do at least two details at night and if anyone falls sick he will ask to do a third and even a fourth . |