Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to do the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 3 | Candidates over twenty-five may be allowed to enrol if they have obtained a position of responsibility in a non-accounting career — that means that you wo n't necessarily need A-levels to do the course . |
| 4 | Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet . |
| 5 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 6 | She comments , ‘ luckily for everyone , I found others to do the singing , while I gave the commentary and some of the recitations ’ . |
| 7 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 8 | so you 've got to find time to do the |
| 9 | Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same . |
| 10 | For the time being Macmillan advised the cabinet that Britain should try to conciliate Egypt and persuade Washington to do the same . |
| 11 | Abandoning the need to show the self , it uses documentary to do the things which documentary does best , to detail and report , but carries with it too a wealth of fantastical imagining which has , over the last decade , made women 's photography so strong and be severe . |
| 12 | Or you can design your home and act as site manager , hiring tradesman to do the job for you . |
| 13 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 14 | ‘ Barry Horne worked very hard alongside him and that allowed Ian to do the ball work . |
| 15 | The projected documentary on the exiled Stuarts was Verrall 's idea and he had commissioned William to do the spade-work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yeah er how how much have you got room to do the oh right I 'll your book now then . |
| 18 | If the Capital Budget for safe routes could be used to acquire the land , we through ‘ Spokes ’ and with the involvment of the local community could provide volunteers to do the upgrading of the path . |
| 19 | For example , although most retail grocery advertising in the UK used to consist of lists of prices , and consumers tended to expect it to do so , it is unrealistic to expect advertising to do the major job of communicating large numbers of prices , especially promotional prices , when this can be done far better by window bills and in-store display : there are few shoppers who analyse every available grocery ad before deciding where to shop . |
| 20 | It was not common to require pupils to do the actual weighing . |
| 21 | I 've got time to do the potatoes before I go , erm |
| 22 | They contracted Riche to do the construction work . |
| 23 | Er and that they are so he asked Mrs to do the reading which she , came out it 's , , but so er there we are ! |
| 24 | Ca n't someone bring some sense into this ridiculous situation before the governors who took up the challenge after the Government 's much-advertised campaign to persuade people to do the work , and those who served faithfully for many long years , resign en masse ? |
| 25 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
| 26 | You have to persuade people and persuasion is a constant process and so Clinton is permanently engaged in persuading people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without him persuading them . |
| 27 | But a lot of the training does n't actually have a definite something that 's sort of a number because it 's actually getting people to do the work that they 're already doing in a slightly better way or to feel more confident |
| 28 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 29 | If we did n't have butchers to do the necessary , we 'd be vegetarians out of sheer ineptitude . |
| 30 | Therefore if efficiency is a prime goal at which to aim , why not simply allow competition to do the job ? |