Example sentences of "do the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
2 | And after she had done the latter ? |
3 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
4 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
5 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
6 | She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available . |
7 | The Dutch had done the same in 1982 , after a horrible massacre at the main army barracks in Paramaribo , the capital . |
8 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
9 | Before twelfth-century English bishops helped to propagate a canon law based on papal direction by appealing constantly to Rome for guidance , Boniface had done the same in the eighth century . |
10 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
11 | Turtle , venison and turbot are named among the good things — provided mainly , it seems , by Joseph Cradock , who had done the same for the LNU at its opening at Harborough in 1809 . |
12 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
13 | Has it done the same to you ? ’ |
14 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
15 | After all she was her friend and she was in no doubt that had the positions been reversed Maggie would have done the same . |
16 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
17 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
18 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
19 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
20 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
21 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |
22 | ‘ You would have done the same for me , ’ he replied . |
23 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
24 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
25 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
26 | Ashdown could have done the same . |
27 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
28 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
29 | Her own mother had done the same . |
30 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |