Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could a sovereign do that others could not ? |
| 2 | I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there . |
| 3 | He had way-laid Sara in the cobbled yard of the coach house when she was on her way to collect her car to do some shopping . |
| 4 | Mr Barton came to town on market day , yesterday , to announce plans for the May 25 to May 30 broadcast and his intention to do some shopping . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( c ) Where else in the extract do such words innocently lurk ? |
| 7 | In 1986 the English YHA did some market research , learnt some painful truths and embarked on a modernisation programme unhandily titled ‘ The Product Development Marketing Plan ’ . |
| 8 | What modern aid do some farmers use to improve the soil for their grass crops ? |
| 9 | The housemaid did any repairs , the needlework that wanted doing : that was the housemaid 's job . |
| 10 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 11 | In which category of industry does each person in the bus queue belong ? |
| 12 | Last night mister mister does those fractions |
| 13 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 14 | Did your Mum do any sort of work at all ? |
| 15 | Say I ca n't afford to have me hair done this week can you afford to give our Wendy some money ? |
| 16 | Any , anyway you did get your hair done this morning then , yeah ? |
| 17 | but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street |
| 18 | But it should be for work done each day or week — not a promise that hangs on results . |
| 19 | No work done that day . |
| 20 | erm Do you have to wear gloves and protective equipment to do these experiments ? |
| 21 | One employee was sent to his chief executive 's home to do some work . |
| 22 | We have been asked by the County Council to do these works and as far as we are concerned we will comply with them . |
| 23 | It had more holy work to do this night . |
| 24 | another one he had during his work and he says straight away look I was put to work splitting wood , do you see that in the , paragraph on the right hand side , the next day I was told to report to the dairy barns to help milk cows , then he worked in the garden , he also took care of the bees , harvested honey for the family , then in nineteen fifty three I was transferred to the cheese making farm , now here 's a spiritual brother thinking he 's going into the battle to do all sorts of spiritual things , and yet these were his assignments , there 's a lesson here for you and I . |
| 25 | The liver to do that work has to have a very very good supply of oxygen . |
| 26 | Yeah , I , I think again , this er deserves a good , it 's a good exercise to do this sort of thing , taking colour and black and white because you can then decide whe whether one medium has got an advantage over the other or not . |
| 27 | There 's enough examples of that and you read , the most peculiar thing I , I think I was telling , I do n't know if I was telling Iris I have a notion I had , had it in my mind to tell you and you turned up with this blind girl to do this M C |
| 28 | Just as every normal human child first learns to crawl , then to stand and then to walk and the motivation and capacity to do these things comes from within the child , and is not artificially imposed from outside — so , the moral development theorists hold , there is a necessary sequence of stages of emerging moral judgement . |
| 29 | It also has the capacity to do more evil than any other species known on earth . |
| 30 | The Mixing Department has sufficient idle capacity to do this amount of work only . |