Example sentences of "do a big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost exactly a year ago , Enid Jones , an assistant secretary in the department , told a select committee of the House of Lords : ‘ We have done a big exercise on [ how to safeguard supplies ] but ministers have not reached a decision . |
| 2 | well he 's er , he says he 's done a big X-ray . |
| 3 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
| 4 | He 's done a big bucketful for me ! ’ |
| 5 | Alright , I 'll do a big piece then . |
| 6 | Makes it difficult to do a big functions though in here with that stage . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's actually been available to the public for quite a while , but they 've only just started to do a big push on it , ’ explains Robert . |
| 8 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 9 | ‘ They 've said they 're going to do a big media blitz for us at the end of this week . ’ |
| 10 | He 's doing a big thesis on the border sites , that 's why he 's working at our place for a year or so . |
| 11 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc is spreading its favours around , and after doing a big deal with Oracle Corp on its manufacturing software , has now signed a new unlimited use licence for various database products from Sybase Inc , Emeryville , California for deployment in its operations . |
| 13 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 14 | did a big wash the other day so they 're all ready wo wo n't be long and the clothes she 's wearing now are nought to three months . |
| 15 | We just did a big buffet . |
| 16 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 17 | A solicitor friend of his who came on one of the shoots did a big favour for one of the beaters . |
| 18 | ‘ We did a big campaign , with WHS in particular , and gave away free extracts of the first chapter in the shops . |
| 19 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 20 | But I did a big tour with Elton John in 1980 . |
| 21 | I do a big education job for management [ when it 's needed ] . |
| 22 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 23 | The first time I had mine I was falling asleep and does a big click when it |