Example sentences of "[verb] do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party seeking to recover his property , which may be held , for example , by someone who has done work on it , will have first to issue proceedings , and if it appears that a lien arises , the court may order that the party seeking to recover may pay into court , to abide the event , the amount in respect of which the security is claimed together with such further sum by way of interest and costs as the court directs , and upon such payment , the property be given up . |
| 2 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 3 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 4 | D&B says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since its debut last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders worth over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations with revenues in excess of $150m . |
| 5 | Secondly , erm think of the world of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ , it must be so , or even more so in France perhaps , erm there 's this huge French administration which has done things in much the same way through the decades and I suppose wo n't easily be changed from doing them . |
| 6 | Usually the weathering has done part of the job , but thereafter a combination of small chisels and stout needles ( to prise away individual grains ) is needed . |
| 7 | She addressed a group of clergy from the Diocese , sharing with them her experiences of bereavement as a religious , a hospital chaplain , a nurse , and also someone who has done research into the needs of the bereaved . |
| 8 | Although nobody has done research upon the development of brain connections in the beaver , they have done this kind of research on other animals , like worms . |
| 9 | Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death . |
| 10 | From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands . |
| 11 | He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment , and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre . |
| 12 | DRA itself has done installers for the Transputer , 386/486 , MIPS , 68K , VAX and is looking at HP 's PA-RISC . |
| 13 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 14 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 15 | Sources close to the deal say SCO is now expected to do versions of its iAPX-86 software for RISC architectures so it can compete on corporate accounts which demand Unix for RISC systems and Microsoft Corp software on Intel Corp boxes . |
| 16 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 17 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 18 | But what sort of machine do you need to do justice to the application . |
| 19 | ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future . ’ |
| 20 | He says that he has to do business with Foxhunters . |
| 21 | Sometimes she wants to do things on her own , but most times we do things together — you know , like going to the swimming baths or going shopping and stuff like that . |
| 22 | This is not always easy , especially when the relationship is going through a sticky patch , but if they can feel close from time to time , the pulling-back will happen less , and Elizabeth could reassure Harry that just because she wants to do things for herself does n't mean that she does n't want him . |
| 23 | ‘ I must have her , I 've got that man from Milan who wants to do business with Belmodes coming in this morning . |
| 24 | But I must say I 'm very encouraged to see the numbers of women who are applying to do subjects like chemistry and physics is going up and certainly we would applaud that sort of activity . |
| 25 | Berkeley 's making of ideas into things needs to do justice to the thought that we all ( including God , for Berkeley ) perceive the same things . |
| 26 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 27 | Well I could n't take I could n't do nowt about it at all so I went to see t head of firm and Aye , he says , it 's bad , he says , we do n't know to do things like that . |
| 28 | If you want to do clustering of any sort , you need a pseudo metric . |
| 29 | There 's a second group of students who write to me after that letter in May , and say , ‘ I no longer want to do English at university . |
| 30 | I want to do English as a subject at a polytechnic and would like to do something to do with Ancient Greek culture as well . |