Example sentences of "do [adj] [noun] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything shown before 9pm is regarded as family viewing and Elliott says the ITC has done extensive research on The Bill , a police drama , to check the impact on its sizeable audience of children . |
| 2 | It 's okay yeah I got the van and our I 've got ta do that strap on the car . |
| 3 | Now that one , you 're doing , sort of doing this bit , erm , you can do that bit on the calculator and then do times six hundred . |
| 4 | And just cos we could n't do some questions on the paper she says , Oh you 're not good enough then you should 've learnt it better . |
| 5 | James had asked him to come early so they could do some work on the autobiography before dinner . |
| 6 | " John 's done some work on the room , " he said . |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me a cheque once , after we 'd done some work on the pool at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 8 | Rusty , who has done some research on the island , assures his companions that the volcano is safe . |
| 9 | A doctor in the north of England has done pioneering work on the measurement of clinical need . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 11 | He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively . |
| 12 | And whoever had done those carvings on the wall , Twoflower thought charitably , had probably been drinking too much . |
| 13 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 14 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 15 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 16 | A year or so ago , I went into Cartmel to do some work on the house of that oaf you have just seen . |
| 17 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 18 | Patrick had been able to do some thinking on the drive from Sandwich . |
| 19 | But even as Mr Major urged the opposition parties not to do back-stage deals on the constitution , Labour revealed a plan to introduce proportional representation for the election of British Euro-MPs before the next European elections in June 1994 . |
| 20 | In these three miracles Jesus claimed the right to do any action on the Sabbath that was for the good of people . |
| 21 | ‘ It was not the same as doing 100 mph on the motorway . |
| 22 | Er on the doing small jobs on the quay there like you know , cleaning up and things like that . |
| 23 | By Texas we were out of control , doing 96 mph on the flat when the flashing light in the rear mirror pulled us over . |
| 24 | We 're doing 130 mph on the back straight , approaching the Esses , a left and a right at dog-leg right-angles . |
| 25 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 26 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 27 | After a snack of coffee and pastries , he did ten minutes on the exercise bike to prevent his muscles from getting stiff , and then went home . |
| 28 | We drank in pubs , played fruit machines , went dancing , saw films , did silly things on the spur of the moment if we felt like it . |