Example sentences of "do [adj] [prep] the work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 2 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 3 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 4 | I am expected to do most of the work including taking care of him ( the mentally retarded boy ) which is very hard with all my school-work too . |
| 5 | Billie Rudyard , who is co-ordinating the course , explained : ‘ The women will be able to get ‘ hands on ’ experience during the course , by doing some of the work at the new centre . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps he did some of the work on them , but I do n't believe he did everything sold under his name . ’ |
| 7 | But I think Sabine Jourdain did most of the work on the paintings and I think you knew it . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables , but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 9 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 10 | The little energy the muscles supply at the beginning of a stride is what we contribute to our locomotion ; gravity does most of the work for a walker . |
| 11 | This ray does not need to move very much because its electricity does most of the work of catching food . |
| 12 | Again , gravity does most of the work in moving us forward . |