Example sentences of "do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ how doth the little busy bee , |
| 2 | The next morning , a Sunday , he agreed to Dick 's suggestion to see a West German doctor , had tests done the following Wednesday and was referred to Zurich for an operation a week later . |
| 3 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 4 | The pattern was similar last summer , with the premieres of David Blake 's The Plumber 's Gift at the Coliseum and John Casken 's Golem at the Almeida , while the London International Opera Festival brought Udo Zimmermann 's Die Weisse Rose , another work to have done the European rounds in triumph before landing here . |
| 5 | Sometimes I 've done the odd job for la parallèle , ’ he said simply , as though it explained everything . |
| 6 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 7 | Well I should have done the financial |
| 8 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 9 | That policy seems to have done the Norwegian Red , some of which are black , no harm in other respects . |
| 10 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 11 | Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ You know , they say you 've done the dirty on us in the Council . ’ |
| 13 | Goes back to the fisherman and they just er done the dirty on |
| 14 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 15 | And well done the major prize-winner , Mr. S. Davies of John Broom & Co. , a keen rugby supporter who is now set to have a rather special honeymoon following his wedding next month — off with his bride to New Zealand ! |
| 16 | erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management . |
| 17 | So far , she 'd done the absolute minimum necessary to allow herself to camp in the house overnight . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've done the easy bit , Alan , ’ he joked , sipping orange juice . |
| 19 | in my eyes like , was more professional than the one that had done the new one ! |
| 20 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 21 | He answered Andrus , as he had done the other Copts , with assurances and counsels of patience ; and with a touch of iron . |
| 22 | But I 've done the other two . |
| 23 | They were doing it down the road here done the other week . |
| 24 | You can see the one that Scott done the other day . |
| 25 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 26 | So use the other half of the diagram , and then when you 've done the other half , the whole thing is a two-fold rotation about the centre of C. |
| 27 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |
| 28 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 29 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Citroen 's design director Art Blakeslee thought the company had done the right thing with Activa II . |