Example sentences of "[verb] do [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the princess 's closest friends claim that the friendship has done much harm to the royal marriage . |
| 2 | Anyone who has done much climbing in Scotland will be familiar with the first two . |
| 3 | I mean if a garage leaves the sump plug loose or does n't erm put it back in , then obviously the whoever has done that work , if they are a legitimate erm service department would be more than happy to put that right and would apologise obviously , and the claim would obviously lie with them . |
| 4 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 5 | Granted , if his deficit-reduction plan eventually gets through Congress relatively unscathed , he will be able to claim that he has done more good in an important area of policy than either of his predecessors . |
| 6 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 7 | David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that . |
| 8 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 9 | He has done some showing and I hope to show him again next year , but feel that his extensively pink muzzle detracts from his appearance . |
| 10 | Rusty , who has done some research on the island , assures his companions that the volcano is safe . |
| 11 | However , Age Concern has done some research and found that the percentage increase in the average income of the lowest quintile of pensioners over the period 1978 to 1988 is 15 per cent . |
| 12 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 13 | Should Mr Goldin choose to attend any more fund-raising dinners of Noraid , the IRA 's American front , as he already has done this year , he can dine with no such blot of truth on his conscience . |
| 14 | Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement . |
| 15 | ‘ Who has done this thing ? ’ he hissed . |
| 16 | he has done this morning , and he 's talked to us about the film . |
| 17 | Tony and Matt are both experienced cavers , they have the right equipment , have had a guide to the mines produced by the Northern Association of Caving Clubs , and , more importantly , Matt at least has done this sort of thing before , or as he said , If I remember rightly … " |
| 18 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway has recently put into service a new buffet car , to replace a vintage vehicle which has done this duty since the early years of revival . |
| 19 | The commentator who has done most justice to this appeal to Virgil by way of Gavin Douglas is the South African , Anthony Woodward . |
| 20 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 21 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 22 | So what I propose to do this morning , is to talk erm , based on the notes from the hand-book about Anthems of the Nation , but to spend probably more time , talking about the French National Anthem , than about any others , because I know a little bit about it , and I have discovered even more . |
| 23 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 24 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 25 | And even during the Second World War er mothers with their children under the age of five er they were n't expected to do any war work at all . |
| 26 | I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house . |
| 27 | But we do n't need to do any blood tests if you 're fine , you 'll be delighted to hear , having checked in the first place . |
| 28 | He holds a rather higher view of individual intelligence than Taylor , arguing that the person who has to do that job every day is the one most likely to know how to do it . |
| 29 | He has to do much interviewing and paper work , and his advocacy is confined to the comparatively small cases . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |