Example sentences of "do [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 2-club competition was very popular , the Standard dryly commenting ‘ Much better cards were put in than anticipated , the winning ladies finished with scores which would have done them credit with a full bag of clubs ! ’ |
| 2 | It was as if he were saying , ‘ There , I 've done my duty as a good host . |
| 3 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 4 | He is confident that between them they can do their bit towards the deciding Test in a gripping series with Pakistan ‘ being remembered for the right reasons . ’ |
| 5 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 6 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 7 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 8 | He will do his homework in a cold and inhospitable bedroom , within a home marked by warm conviviality and sharing . |
| 9 | ‘ I changed things around because I was convinced the same 11 players could not do themselves justice over the next three weeks . ’ |
| 10 | Alciston itself acted as the gathering place for surrounding parishes , and it was there that the wool merchants went to do their trading until the mid-fourteenth century . |
| 11 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 12 | And again one of the great concerns that we have with the development of N H S Trusts , is those Trust Boards are able to determine their own policies in respect to staffing , to set their own pay scales for staff , also they are able to do their business to a large extent behind closed doors . |
| 13 | She arranged with the friend beside whom he was being rehoused to do his shopping on a regular basis . |
| 14 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 15 | Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail . |
| 16 | On a Thursday there was invariably some instruction about the lunch she 'd left him , since Thursday was her day for doing her charity with the elderly . |
| 17 | I have seen the ladies of Rye doing their shopping in the High Street every morning , carrying large market baskets , and bumping into each other in narrow doorways , and talking in a very animated manner … |
| 18 | He accused Scottish Office ministers of ‘ doing their bit for the ideological shift on road building in the Department of Transport ’ . |
| 19 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 20 | Even so they are still honestly doing their thing from the only angle they understand . ’ |
| 21 | Even those who are acutely aware of these constraints have to be content with doing their job to the best of their ability , although they may be aware of the probable shortfall in impact of the whole project . |
| 22 | The picture imp was doing its laundry in a tiny tub , while the salamanders dozed in their cage . |
| 23 | Last week 's 40 Minutes ( Tuesday , BBC2 ) took the form of a diary of a young Israeli conscript doing his service in the occupied territories of the West Bank . |
| 24 | BRENT ANDERSON from Waikato is not the only foreign player doing his stuff for an Irish club . |
| 25 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 26 | How do you see the regulator doing his job with a hundred and twenty eight thousand schemes to , to monitor ? |
| 27 | How do you see the regulator doing his job with a hundred and twenty-eight thousand schemes to , to monitor ? |
| 28 | But if you 'd listened to me , you 'd be married to Charles now and doing your duty as a good wife should ! ’ |
| 29 | He told Arts Scene : ‘ I do my waffle with a few little inserts from tapes . ’ |
| 30 | That evening Julia dressed for dinner with unusual care and even did her hair in a new style . |