Example sentences of "do on the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A similar system of farming is done on the sandy parts of the Lancashire Plain but here the land has been improved by mixing the wind-blown sand with the clay beneath it . |
| 4 | In addition , it will draw upon archives in other European countries , and will be linked with work done on the official history of the European Space Agency at the European University Institute in Florence . |
| 5 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 6 | As yet research is not available , nor has substantive work been done on the relative merits of different approaches to providing residential care for children with disabilities . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states . |
| 9 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 12 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |
| 13 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | The third model — the democratic — is much the most difficult to achieve : it is also the most radical , resting as it does on the direct involvement of clients in the planning , management and provision of services . |