Example sentences of "do something [adj] [prep] [art] [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 | right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video |
| 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 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , that 's a pre-requisite , ’ said Doogie , who was doing something unspeakable to a metal coat-hanger . |
| 13 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
| 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 | A footman came and did something deft with a spoon and a plate and a linen napkin . |
| 18 | Was it true that he did something dreadful on the eve of an audition ? |
| 19 | If we do something pleasant to a horse , like worming it , or giving injection , or something else , we are likely to care and stroke it afterwards , or to reward it in some other way , such as with food . |
| 20 | 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 . |