Example sentences of "they [vb base] do a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are now some 1500 hakims still practising their Byzantine medicine in Delhi , and they appear to do a thriving business . |
| 2 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
| 3 | Mark reckons they 've done a good job on the water have they ? |
| 4 | ‘ But they 've done a great job . |
| 5 | Well , I , I think Mr Chairman , they 've done a fair job in there . |
| 6 | Both men , in fact , were and still are , honestly convinced they have done a first-rate job . |
| 7 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 8 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 9 | They have done a superb job . |
| 10 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
| 11 | But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear . |
| 12 | They have done a wonderful job of creating crime , but they will still not recognise the link to which I have referred . |
| 13 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |