Example sentences of "do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are companies who advertise in Yellow Pages that they will do investigations on behalf of employers of future employees . |
| 2 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 3 | er lightly done kippers on one side . |
| 4 | Well done mum for reading that out wrongly to me . |
| 5 | On the one hand , in a certain sense , all the elements which comprise X condition the tribunal 's power to decide upon Y. The statute says , explicitly or implicitly , if X you may or shall do Y. On the other hand , to accept that the reviewing courts should be the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of all the elements comprising the X factor would cause review to become very like appeal . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually I 've done loads of studio stuff ; I also did the Pepsi ad for Canada . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , he 's done loads of it |
| 8 | Hurray , oh , er , no poo I do n't believe it , hurray , done loads of them today have n't you ? |
| 9 | They 've done loads of them . |
| 10 | The felt need to get the cleaning done conflicts with the desire to be sociable ; one can iron , or perhaps cook , while talking to a friend or neighbour , but one can not wield a vacuum cleaner and carry on a conversation at the same time . |
| 11 | They 're gon na do shit to me I know . |
| 12 | Yeah , but you ai n't gon na do loads in one lesson are you ? |
| 13 | The host raised an interesting topic — ‘ the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication ’ : Johnson , who does not mention this conversation , uses the word ‘ infamy ’ and relates sexual morality to laws of property . |
| 14 | The helper obviously did not do part of the actions denoted by the infinitives in these sentences . |
| 15 | This is not the case when the bare infinitive construction occurs with an inanimate subject either : despite Wood 's contention that " we could scarcely say These tablets will help you sleep " , since the tablets , being inanimate , " can not do part of the sleeping " , the following have been found : ( 26 ) That [ = the injection ] was to help you relax . |
| 16 | Does it do adverts on any of the others ? |
| 17 | cos we done not a lot this morning like I just sort of be zombies , I 'm sure we could do play with |
| 18 | At ‘ The Caithness and Sutherland Industrial and Art Exhibition ’ to give it its full title , a labourer was charged with having done damage to the extent of £8 by falling upon a glass case and breaking a valuable jug the property of one John Fitsgibbon , china merchant . |
| 19 | Brownie Owl continued : ‘ I think Farmer Bolsover is mostly afraid that we might do damage to his crops by not keeping to the paths , or taking a fancy to the fruit in his orchard . ’ |
| 20 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman is in no position to talk about opt-outs , considering that his party has opted out of every necessary decision to assist this country in the past 10 years and has backed every inflationary wage claim , every piece of trade union militancy and every policy that would do damage to Britain and its future . |
| 22 | The authors , who have done field-work in Madagascar , apply the theories of Lévy-Bruhl : the pre-logical mentality persists in civilised man , but becomes available only to or through the poet . |
| 23 | Usually the weathering has done part of the job , but thereafter a combination of small chisels and stout needles ( to prise away individual grains ) is needed . |
| 24 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 25 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
| 26 | We can do copies of . |
| 27 | We can do reactions from F too dangerous . |
| 28 | And it 's a bit like that , and what happens , ’ and they go , went on and explained what happened and why it was interesting , and in particular why , by doing this , you could come up with an X-ray source which can help cure cancer , and can do scans in a way which you ca n't do by other methods . |
| 29 | There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands . |
| 30 | DRA itself has done installers for the Transputer , 386/486 , MIPS , 68K , VAX and is looking at HP 's PA-RISC . |