Example sentences of "do [adj] [noun pl] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 3 | And whoever had done those carvings on the wall , Twoflower thought charitably , had probably been drinking too much . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er on the doing small jobs on the quay there like you know , cleaning up and things like that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |