Example sentences of "[prep] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we got ta do the bloody thing again anyway ! |
| 2 | What has she got ta do the Norwegian thing as well ? |
| 3 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 4 | We have got to go and stand outside Marks and Spencers and ask questionnaires and we 've got ta do the same in Wimbourne . |
| 5 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 6 | I could of done the same at home , I would of liked to have looked after Neil and kept my own electric |
| 7 | We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life |
| 8 | Instead of doing the usual reach-fall-reach , choose a point a few hundred metres upwind as a target to sail to , then you can concentrate solely on gybing as you work your way back downwind . |
| 9 | It 's not a question of a C change on the part of anyone , it 's a question of doing the right thing for the future . |
| 10 | That links to a question I 'd very much like to put to you , Geoffrey , and that is the British concept of doing the decent thing — I have the impression that that is almost the uniquely British concept . |
| 11 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 12 | But to the Labour party , it seems that the solution always lies in having more ex-teachers , more ex-educationists and more establishment figures who alone , Labour thinks , are capable of doing the necessary inspections in our schools . |
| 13 | I feel that children should be brought up with the idea of doing the best they can — for themselves . ’ |
| 14 | Biblical leadership is an act of love , because it has the long-range goal of doing the best for those being led . |
| 15 | method is their best chance of doing the best they can with what they have got . |
| 16 | ‘ The endeavours of a man truly good , ’ he once wrote , ‘ are not confined to this or that particular design , but lay hold on all opportunities of doing the best service he can to the souls and bodies of mankind . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ After nine months of doing the early morning show and the Breakfast Show with Simon Mayo , I was half-dead . |
| 18 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 19 | Are you still finding yourself in a condition where the model is sitting quite happily in the hover some distance away , but you are reluctant to apply some control input for fear of doing the wrong thing ? |
| 20 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 21 | He paused — thought of doing the dramatic half-circle — thought better of it . |
| 22 | It all developed from techniques — routine methods of doing the basic fundamentals so that they became automatic . |
| 23 | Leinster are quite capable of doing the same . ’ |
| 24 | And he and his fellow sociobiologists have high but distant hopes of doing the same for man . |
| 25 | But if you 're thinking of doing the same , make sure you get a recording that can be sung-along with and not one of those dragged out funereal dirge versions . |
| 26 | Corbiere and West Tip did , and I think this horse has a realistic chance of doing the same . ’ |
| 27 | An architecture centre is in danger of doing the same thing and , to that extent , is distinctly against the interests of the membership as a whole . |
| 28 | Good co-operation between the physiotherapist , occupational therapist and nurse is vital : the patient must not be taught several different ways of doing the same dressing task , nor must he be given tasks which he can not achieve . |
| 29 | The examples of splitting and lumping therefore , are not alternative ways of doing the same thing . |
| 30 | Soon you will realize that there are many different ways of doing the same action . |