Example sentences of "[verb] do any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Regulations are presently the responsibility of Building Control Officers within local authorities and it is to them that you should apply if you want to do any work which might be affected by the Regulations . |
| 5 | If you want to do any editing from View , press the |
| 6 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 7 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 8 | But the engineers , members of the Post Office Engineering Union , are refusing to do any work on the Mercury network as a protest against the government 's plan to turn Telecom into a private company . |
| 9 | So if we 're going to do any laplinking |
| 10 | do n't seem a very good driver does he ? now , are you going to do any painting this morning ? |
| 11 | I 'm not going to do any drinking . |
| 12 | are you going to do any drawing or painting ? , are you fed up with it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Do you really think a strike is going to do any good ? ’ |
| 14 | The bits-and-pieces players are not going to do any good . |
| 15 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 16 | Are you going to do any washing ? |
| 17 | ‘ But your being pals with the local superintendent is n't going to do any harm . ’ |
| 18 | I looked at the illustration and I thought no way is that ever going to do any thing that chops |
| 19 | No , no , I 'm not going to do any thing . |
| 20 | I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’ |
| 21 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 22 | I said but you 've not got to do any work for this . |
| 23 | ( Many managers ca n't be bothered to do any research and therefore make decisions they can hardly support . ) |
| 24 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 25 | But , you know she just puts it on , she does n't want to do any thing for a hour or so and just sit and recover . |
| 26 | ‘ He began rejecting his friends and stopped doing any exercise . |
| 27 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 28 | Just instinct , because I had my painting clothes on and a bit of water would n't have done any harm . |
| 29 | So I think caution is erm very important in buying a computer , and if you wait a couple of months erm you wo n't have done any harm , because something newer and more beautiful is always on the way . |
| 30 | Not that it would have done any good . |