Example sentences of "the [noun sg] do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Edwards says the horse is a good jumper so he 'll tell Judy to hang on and sit still and let the horse do the hard work . |
| 2 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 4 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 5 | His groom on the back does the final balancing act . |
| 6 | But tomorrow never happens — and , worse , the wife does the one thing absolutely guaranteed to put the kibosh on the whole matter . |
| 7 | ‘ Three more times round the block doing the seasonal cheer bit , playing it dead straight . |
| 8 | What good will just the teachings of Jesus and the church do the poor tramp sitting outside the church ? |
| 9 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 10 | What the hell does the little hypocrite know ? |
| 11 | How the hell did the old man know he was here ? |
| 12 | This should be of a fine grain size to allow the female to do the small amount of digging necessary to convert her cave into an ideal home for herself and her fry . |
| 13 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 14 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 15 | Only in the Concerto do the European Baroque Soloists keep strictly to Telemann 's specified instrumentation . |
| 16 | Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls . |
| 17 | and his , his er son was one of the lads who worked in the office doing the middle turn , you see , and er I do n't know if he 's still alive . |