Example sentences of "they do [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did that for the school children |
| 2 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 3 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables , but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 4 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 5 | Erm I think they , I think they do that during the day and then in the evening it 's on for anybody else who wants to see that take-off on cheeses . |
| 6 | ‘ They do that in the West , ’ the Lout said . |
| 7 | In concurrent legislation the Länder must agree , but they do this via the Bundesrat , the forty-member Council of Länder Ministers . |
| 8 | They do this despite the fact that on the kitchen floor there is an immaculately clean dish of pure tap water , and probably milk as well , awaiting them . |
| 9 | They do this in the form of infidelities but they have very different consequences and conclusions , partly due to the differences in their characters and also their circumstances . |
| 10 | They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place . |
| 11 | Many adverts are specifically aimed at women , supposedly because they do most of the shopping . |
| 12 | For a long time these two between them do most of the Equity work , though the Court of Exchequer has also developed an Equity jurisdiction , an ‘ Equity side ’ , which , however , is handed over to Chancery in 1842 : it is now administered by the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court . |