Example sentences of "do [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle .
2 She had often done that in the early days of their marriage , and he had found it quite charming .
3 ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me .
4 My local primary has , in fact , at least done that in the last year , and we have n't opted out , and secondly you will remember the article in the Guardian from thirteenth of November — thirteenth of November last year — Hull Grammar School , which was one of the first ones that went independent erm have now applied for an administration order which gives them breathing space before winding up petitions can be launched .
5 Pearson acknowledged that the new racial science could do little without the hearty co-operation of medics .
6 Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation .
7 So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful .
8 so I think we 're inerent , inherently , er , unlikely to be able to predict that very well , but certainly if we can get the jurisdictional outs , and the clear no injustices and those to Sarah , then I think we should do that across the four teams , what we 've got at the moment is quite distorting as well , in other ways , look at my
9 Could n't do that on the other products because there 's limited number of slots .
10 I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible .
11 Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ?
12 Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people .
13 ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’
14 I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place .
15 We can no longer realistically do that in the open systems world .
16 They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible .
17 We 've done this on the proposed East Oxford Education centre .
18 No reason why I should n't do some of the simple work . ’
19 You can do this with the following program line .
20 But if you like , governments could do this for the non-teaching staff and not do that for the teaching staff .
21 I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended .
22 They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest .
23 You can do this through the many Hall and Department associations , through clubs and groups at home and abroad .
24 The most important first step — although as we will see later it is by no means irrevocable — is to select a presentation style and in the latest version of the product — HGW Version 1.01 — you can do this from the New Presentation dialog box .
25 She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss .
26 Presumably this will make it easier for voters in the Tory heartlands to shop abroad and avoid duty , though it may not do much for the Conservative vote in Kent .
27 They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’
28 Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry .
29 I 've now done three of the five stages .
30 And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time .
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