Example sentences of "do [adj] [prep] the [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reason why I should n't do some of the simple work . ’ |
| 2 | But I was supposed to do some of the clerical work . |
| 3 | On the North American mainland the transportation of convicts meant that there was some non-free white labour to do much of the hardest work in growing rice and tobacco . |
| 4 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |
| 5 | She did not insist on his taking his meals upstairs , any more ; and he did some of the hard work in the garden — not that she acknowledged it , mind you . |
| 6 | The dowry system has sometimes been considered as an effect of the sexual division of labour where , although women do some of the heaviest work ( servicing labour and producing it ) , these roles are considered less important than those of men . |
| 7 | Catherine Marshall , who did much of the day-to-day work of the NCF , placed humanity before principle , intervening with the authorities to secure improvements in the treatment of absolutists and ‘ alternativists ’ alike . |
| 8 | There is strong feeling against the three firms who do most of the criminal work in the city . |
| 9 | The general division of labour in peasant and pastoral households is significant — it is women who frequently collect water , fuel , forest litter and fodder , and indeed in some societies do most of the agricultural work as well , except ploughing ( as , for example , in parts of South Asia ) . |
| 10 | The computer did most of the hard work and produced four circles with radii 4,781 4,647 , 4,718 and 4,685 metres . |