Example sentences of "do [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I eased the cork out of the bottle very quietly , as if I was a maître d' in a very posh restaurant . |
2 | But further research was needed on climate change : ‘ Before we can translate this into practical policy and precise targets , there is a lot of work to be done as a matter of urgency . ’ |
3 | So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single . |
4 | Angela did n't ride , though she had done as a child . |
5 | After the success of Twin Peaks , ABC executives are reportedly considering more high risk shows including CopRock , the first police show to be done as a musical in the pilot , a jury signs the verdict in a song composed by Randy Newman . |
6 | ‘ Women of Troy at the Gate Theatre was done as a response to the crisis in the Middle East . |
7 | ‘ They are asking people to treat what they have done as a success . |
8 | It is generally done as a reverse of the sequence for dressing . |
9 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
10 | Usually this is done as a weekend hobby . |
11 | Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death . |
12 | Nevertheless , the training is sometimes unavoidably accompanied by the infliction of punishment in some form or other , but as is very well-known , this should never be done as a result of a fit of anger . |
13 | How had I done as a test-pilot ? |
14 | We both are experienced pilots , and initially , we thought it would be done as a visual flight , with a bit of adventure . |
15 | I have used some of the things that he has done as a good example to myself . |
16 | This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings . |
17 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
18 | ‘ A full and proper economic evaluation is overdue and should be done as a precondition to the allocation of resources beyond 1991 . ’ |
19 | One hospital worker said : ‘ The holiday camp and hotel stuff is ‘ income generation ’ and being done as a priority . |
20 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
21 | The later books have very much the air of contrived sequels , with young conspirators or princes in training cut from the same pattern and taking , one by one , the centre of a story , none of them capturing attention as the Stormy Petrel had done as a boy . |
22 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
23 | We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group . |
24 | Moynihan had emerged into the limelight after the war on the strength of his portraiture , in particular that , done as a War Office Commission , of an ATS girl in uniform , Private Clarke . |
25 | My concern is that when a child is tested for standard sexually transmitted disease , an HIV test is done as a matter of course without informed consent . |
26 | But certain things should be done as a matter of course . |
27 | His work at Nuremberg was of an international significance which surpassed anything Lawrence had done as a puisne judge or was to do as a law lord . |
28 | ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her . |
29 | Now unity can be guaranteed simply by using the same material from beginning to end , as is done as a matter of course in many fugues . |
30 | Such unrepresentative surfaces can be stripped away by bombardment of the sample with electrons or ions , and this is often done as a routine precaution to ensure that the surface examined is typical of the bulk material . |