Example sentences of "[noun] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Edwards says the horse is a good jumper so he 'll tell Judy to hang on and sit still and let the horse do the hard work . |
| 2 | You can see the one that Scott done the other day . |
| 3 | Now will Tinkler do the same ? ? ? ? ? |
| 4 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , can you get Jeff to do the first soldering for you ? |
| 6 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
| 7 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 8 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 9 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 10 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 11 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 12 | Initiatives such as the Montreal speech and even the withdrawal from NATO were motivated in part by a feeling that he could not trust his successors to do the necessary . |
| 13 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 14 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 15 | Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same . |
| 16 | Tim Moulds will ask Leo Bashyam to do the same . |
| 17 | erm maybe half a dozen kids doing the written work talking individually to the member of staff , so you did n't have twenty odd kids all in |
| 18 | What it is about , members of the jury , is a very professional police force doing the best they could in the circumstances . |
| 19 | When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the two British entries , Richardson and Hynds , worked together to take a substantial win in men 's K1 with Hemmings and Gilby doing the same thing in the ladies ' K1 event in a field of only three . |
| 21 | What English words do the second set of phrases remind you of ? |
| 22 | I started by asking ‘ What sort of religion do the British favour ? ’ . |
| 23 | What sex aid did the Tibetan monk invent ? |
| 24 | The farm work needed to be carefully planned so that only in extreme emergencies did the part-time farmer have to be recalled from his other employment . |
| 25 | ‘ What kind of books did the learned Jim censor ? ’ |
| 26 | The tail car did the same . |
| 27 | What would happen if other advanced nations did the same ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure the inspectors did the best job they could , ’ says Mr Reed , choosing his words carefully , ‘ but the whole process is very undesirable , very unsatisfactory . |
| 29 | What strengths do the Marxist approaches contain , whether they be structuralist or instrumentalist ? |
| 30 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |