Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now — I 've decided we should do something special at the club . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 3 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 4 | They had also done something terrible to the boiler , and discovered dry rot in the airing-cupboard . |
| 5 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 6 | Those responsible are having problems adapting to adult life and we try to help , to give them the skills they lack and to get them to do something constructive in the community . ’ |
| 7 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is reportedly getting ready to do something serious with the Chorus Systemes SA microkernel . |
| 8 | The public want the House to do something serious about the problem . |
| 9 | Eventually a strong urge swept me to do something vandalistic to the apparatus , but I yielded not to temptation and left , returning a couple of hours later to complete my purchases . |
| 10 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
| 12 | The very first and most important principle to bear in mind when planting a rose or any other shrub or tree is that this is the last opportunity you will have to do anything basic about the soil underneath , where the roots will have to work . |
| 13 | To do anything interesting with the software a good programmer and designer will be needed . |
| 14 | He was up at the crack of dawn doing something unspeakable to the turkey , but the kids were up anyway . |
| 15 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 16 | It also expects it to build gradually over the next two quarters and then start doing something serious in the fall . |
| 17 | In this letter , he briefly recorded Rufus 's harassments of the lands and knights of Canterbury , his overturning of all good customs , and the absolute impossibility which he himself had found of doing anything useful for the Church , concluding with this plea : |
| 18 | ‘ Because that team is almost all new , we were very wary of rushing in and making inappropriate changes , which is why we did nothing permanent with the marketing of the 1992 Festival which was Brian McMaster 's first . |
| 19 | With our stage and our workshops , which are better than any theatre in the world , we are able to achieve really striking stage pictures ; and they have nothing to do with these modern productions that do everything contrary to the music . |
| 20 | Was it true that he did something dreadful on the eve of an audition ? |
| 21 | It is possible to harden the heart against a Ballesteros in these moods but then he goes and does something sublime on the course , hits a shot that no one else would conceive , let alone execute , and one realises here is genius in sport . |
| 22 | ‘ ( a ) destroys the goods , or disposes of the goods in a way giving a good title to the entire property in the goods or otherwise does anything equivalent to the destruction of the other 's interest in the goods , or ( b ) purports to dispose of the goods in a way which would give a good title to the entire property in the goods if he was acting with the authority of all co-owners of the goods . ’ |