Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she was positively skinny , a fact which the dark red silky dress with its cross-over bodice and wrap-around skirt did little to conceal . |
| 2 | Does this tooth Mum does this toothbrush fold up ? |
| 3 | Or you could as a Neighbourhood Watch do that yourself . |
| 4 | Wedding bells to do this one . |
| 5 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |
| 6 | But his choice of the term satyāgraha did more than that : it forged a bond between his actions and his basic beliefs concerning the nature of man and the nature of reality . |
| 7 | Last night mister mister does those fractions |
| 8 | Paul Rotha was amongst those who argued that crime films did much to change the whole basis of film technique ; now the pace was to be crisper , there was more naturalism , and dialogue was lifted out of the ‘ doldrums of the photographed play ’ . |
| 9 | Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this . |
| 10 | Officials see the main thrust as : more freedom in basic research to allow decision making by scientists rather than government more encouragement for private enterprise to invest in research a push to persuade state research bodies to do more contract work for industry and rely less on government funds . |
| 11 | But the Horse Rangers does much more than just bring young people in urban areas into contact with horses . |
| 12 | One of my research assistants did some investigation . |
| 13 | Certain white blood cells do this in response to an infective agent . |
| 14 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 15 | 82 per cent of the studies Morin analyses did this . |
| 16 | The answers are given on page 100 , but to start you off : how many management tiers does this organisation have ? ) |
| 17 | Or could it be the waitresses at the Groucho Club do enough of that already ? |
| 18 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 19 | For these reasons the inevitable defeat of the " United Front " and of Communist affiliation by a predominantly trade-union vote did little to deter the " Unity Campaign " which grew in direct defiance of the Edinburgh decisions . |
| 20 | My boy Hattalus done that too . |
| 21 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 22 | The Law Society did this . |
| 23 | She was a local farmer 's wife and she went on to be our first member of Parliament and me brother was helping her and mum and dad , you see , was working for the , we , we got the house as a committee room and all , all the and I can remember going with mother , we had , we had a Co-op paper or it was Co-op orientated I 'm sure news and I can remembering canvassing Walsall Wood with me mother , well I ca n't see my Guild members doing that . |
| 24 | His interest in the social aspect of child health did much to shape the nature of British paediatrics . |
| 25 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 26 | yeah , he 's had , yeah , he 's had an R S two thousand and I mean I think that 's absolutely pathetic , total Essex boy thing to do that is |
| 27 | At a personal level , the availability of cheap soap and the gradual change from wool to more easily washed cotton clothes did much to make people cleaner . |
| 28 | The expert way to do this is with a trained eye inspecting visually from the roof and fire opening , followed by a test using a special smoke-producing pellet to check for leaks . |
| 29 | Sometimes they used their word formation system to do this . |
| 30 | not a chance , he , he never even earned that much money in all his , no but I mean having , having had the income tax done that to you however ridiculous that it is you 've got to do something about it |