Example sentences of "[verb] do a number " in BNC.

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1 has done a number of ‘ stints ’ with the company , his last spanning 17 years .
2 Now the pot 's under the bed if you want to do a number one .
3 So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things .
4 which we 've done a number of times
5 Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) .
6 I think he 's trying to do a number of things here
7 We have been able to resume many former activities and look forward to going to France again , as we have done a number of times , and stay in a tiny village in the mountains of Provence .
8 We have done a number of things internally in the store which have also contributed to us going forward .
9 He decided he wanted to do a number on the show , and then knock the piano and the orchestra into bits — destroy the whole lot .
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