Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] do a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) has just done a first-rate job on behalf of the Labour party . |
| 2 | Rob has just done a green audit for the district council . |
| 3 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 4 | He has also done a limitless edition of paper coffee cups which say , instead of the traditional ‘ I N.Y . ’ , |
| 5 | She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 . |
| 6 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 7 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 8 | He came back to do a smashing job . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd never done a wrong thing |
| 10 | ‘ All right , ’ Agnes said resignedly , ‘ so what it boils down to is that , despite your assurances to the White House Protective Detail , you 're sneaking off to do a little sleuthing on your own ? ’ |
| 11 | Active work on a problem — learning by doing — is likely to be more effective than simply being told how to do a particular piece of work . |
| 12 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 13 | and then Rochdale up towards Blackpool and we 're stuck right in the bloody middle so the er , they were a , like we were one delivery that 's all it , and we were n't that big an account , you know even doing a reasonable trade you 're not |
| 14 | Yeah I , one of the , yeah yeah , I to started off doing a little bit like that but you find things do n't actually sit in categories very well that 's becomes one of the problems . |
| 15 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 16 | I asked for you to be brought here to do a specific job . |
| 17 | Well you tell a bloke you wo n't get it while you 're until the end of next week , cos I 'm doing a bloke 's spitfire , I ai n't pissing around doing a flaming grill |
| 18 | After all , amongst the girls who do not obtain the top 16+ grades , or who do not go on to do A level mathematics , are some very able pupils . |
| 19 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 20 | And this is unlikely to change — after all if the sales person knew enough to do a good job of giving advice they could easily start a new career as a consultant ! |
| 21 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 22 | You did n't do a similar assignment for the inner route north ? |
| 23 | er when you were in the trade like mine if you did n't do a good job the man never come back to you , there was a , there was a blacksmith farrier in every village ! |
| 24 | ‘ She did n't do a great deal else , did she ? |
| 25 | I must say Jean , you did n't do a bad job for woman ! |
| 26 | Well th the thing is those of you who did it last year with me , it 'll follow much the same sort of format , so Erm but we did n't do a little talk before . |
| 27 | So erm if you ask them why they do n't do a certain thing you get a very very elaborate argument about it , which is often very difficult to er to er criticize or , or , or attack . |
| 28 | If you do a good job , it sounds good ; if you do n't do a good job , it sounds terrible . |
| 29 | Do n't do a prolonged ground run , though : 15 or 20 minutes is about the maximum . |
| 30 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |