Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 2 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 3 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 4 | Erm having considered this , I think that what we 've tried to do in the economic activity projections is to try and estimate job need and to try and balance that with an appropriate level of provision to meet that need . |
| 5 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 6 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 7 | ‘ The spirits respect me ; I have had to do with the dead for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 9 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |