Example sentences of "do any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible .
2 She could n't do any other .
3 because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ?
4 Did you do any maths ?
5 And you do n't do any drinking .
6 ‘ Do you do any baking , ’ she wonders , all innocent , ‘ for those friends of yours I met last week ? ’
7 Why did you not do any actions ?
8 Yeah and she does n't do any ironing , nothing .
9 And then if you can do that you can do any problem of this sort ca n't you ?
10 ‘ My husband does n't do any housework or cooking but he is marvellous with the children , ’ says Larissa .
11 They did n't do any housework ?
12 No they did n't do any housework .
13 Her only proviso is that she wo n't do any housework .
14 Do n't do any housework !
15 Or perhaps they did n't actually do any work at all .
16 Did they do any work in the woods ?
17 Although there appears no evidence that Roe did do any work under this option , they were certainly deepening their workings in the Coniston Mine , on the Bonsor Vein .
18 Do n't do any work on it till you hear from me , okay ? ’
19 No way , he did n't do any work for it
20 I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy .
21 I said to Jay did you do any work yesterday ?
22 And I goes no he hated it , he used to get detention every day for not wearing his cap he hated it and he did n't do any work .
23 That 's why I do n't ever do any work .
24 Cos you do n't do any work .
25 Something he learned in one of his biology lessons , when he does n't do any work .
26 I think he just well they 've got pots of money between them why should I ever do any work ?
27 I did n't do any work .
28 Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ?
29 So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any .
30 If I do n't do any work over the weekend they all moan at me , if you do n't because you 're always round here nothing is said
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