Example sentences of "do [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 2 | Erm what we 're gon na do for the second part of the morning is to look , if you like at the tourism application for the determinants of demand . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 4 | 8 Sunday settled this book and wrote letter — 24 plates done with the first ground in 32 days — I think when the days get long — one of these plates may be done in a day … |
| 5 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 6 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 7 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 8 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 10 | ‘ It appears nothing can be done until the next round of bids which are not out until later this year after the general election . |
| 11 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 12 | Just to show you how this has developed , you do n't need to copy this down , it 's something that you 'll do in the second year of your course , but we mentioned in particular here how you interact with people and what goes through your head . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 16 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 17 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |
| 18 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 19 | The truth of this statement will become even more apparent to you around the 14th — and really the best thing to do over the next couple of weeks is to keep your plans flexible and your options open and let others live with their consciences — if they can , that is ! |
| 20 | I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of months . |
| 21 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 22 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 23 | You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer . |
| 24 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 25 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 26 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 27 | He did on the 9th green in the last round . |
| 28 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 29 | After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications . |