Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
2 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
3 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
4 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
5 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
6 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
7 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
8 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
9 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
10 | We could do it on the National Health . |
11 | There are a whole lot of players who can go out there and knock balls in all over the place , score wonderful great big one four sevens and centuries and things of this nature , but what makes the , the good player an excellent player , is the player who can do it on the big occasion . |
12 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
13 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
14 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
15 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
16 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? ’ |
17 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? |
18 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
19 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
20 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
21 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
22 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
23 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
24 | Last night , Barnet assistant manager Eddie Stein rejected Flashman 's offer of Fry 's job on a full-time basis , although he will do it until the New Year , when the offer might be repeated . |
25 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
26 | Muscles yes , you 've got to er if you 're going to build power into muscles you 've got to , you 've got to give the load to those particular muscles and you 've got to do it at the right load . |
27 | Yeah , you 've got to do it with the right inflect as well . |
28 | The Bolsheviks were merciless in their attack on the government for frustrating the movement for self-determination , which they interpreted as the right to secede , to create a new State , and to do it through the direct action of the peoples concerned without awaiting the approval of the central Government . |
29 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
30 | To do it smoothly , to do it in the right time , you have to be physically very fit . |