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 |