Example sentences of "[noun] do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could a sovereign do that others could not ? |
| 2 | Traps to do this work may be purchased . |
| 3 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 4 | I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there . |
| 5 | I climb into a taxi and head for Harvey Nichols to do some damage with the Barclaycard and the taxi driver tells me about his brother-in-law . |
| 6 | He had way-laid Sara in the cobbled yard of the coach house when she was on her way to collect her car to do some shopping . |
| 7 | ‘ I tell kids to do some research , find the label that 's doing the stuff you do , a label that 's sympathetic . |
| 8 | In recent weeks , two teams of researchers making the computers to do this job have signed agreements with companies to market their work . |
| 9 | Mr Barton came to town on market day , yesterday , to announce plans for the May 25 to May 30 broadcast and his intention to do some shopping . |
| 10 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 11 | The population of Oxenhope doubles during the weekend of the race , with shops doing more trade than at Christmas . |
| 12 | A further unforeseen difficulty for schools doing any kind of agricultural work has been the widespread drought of the mid-1980s , which is still affecting some parts of the country . |
| 13 | Ian Penman did that time and again . |
| 14 | ( c ) Where else in the extract do such words innocently lurk ? |
| 15 | In 1986 the English YHA did some market research , learnt some painful truths and embarked on a modernisation programme unhandily titled ‘ The Product Development Marketing Plan ’ . |
| 16 | With foreign news the populars did less well on both counts . |
| 17 | And most shops did LESS business this August than a year ago . |
| 18 | What modern aid do some farmers use to improve the soil for their grass crops ? |
| 19 | First of all , David did some recording in July — he recorded most of the ‘ Young Americans ’ album — and then there was a break in California and we were going to restart the tour in Los Angeles . |
| 20 | I do n't know that we Jews did this tragedy — but it happened . |
| 21 | I do n't know that we Jews did this tragedy — but it happened . |
| 22 | ‘ Cause brothers do that shit to bitches all the time ’ . |
| 23 | Kay did this bit on Sunday and I 'm not too sure about it , yeah . |
| 24 | The housemaid did any repairs , the needlework that wanted doing : that was the housemaid 's job . |
| 25 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 26 | In which category of industry does each person in the bus queue belong ? |
| 27 | Yeah well Richard does that Richard says it 's not bus it 's bus . |
| 28 | Last night mister mister does those fractions |
| 29 | All the same , Dustin does some things that seem strange to the natives , like making the Woodstock peace sign to the yobbish workmen , who return it mockingly , and also by playing loud bagpipe music on the record-player when the vicar and his wife pay a call . |
| 30 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |