Example sentences of "do [prep] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ It appears nothing can be done until the next round of bids which are not out until later this year after the general election . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |