Example sentences of "[noun sg] to do the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they appear to be looking to a Second Division centre forward to do the business . |
| 2 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 3 | ‘ Myself , I am thankful to finish second and thank Williams for giving me the car to do the job . ’ |
| 4 | A hired platform tower makes the work safer , but if you have any doubts about your ability to work at heights , it would be better to call in a guttering contractor to do the job for you . |
| 5 | It was the Rolls Royce , Cadillac of its time and those of us who flew it knew of its ruggedness and its capability to do the daylight bombing . |
| 6 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 7 | Choosing a Club to do the Job |
| 8 | It 's a squad game and there is still enough ability at the club to do the business and win 90 per cent of their games . |
| 9 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 10 | Where can I get erm , where can I get erm a pink to do the lattice on top of mince pies from . |
| 11 | It never says this is the right behaviour or this is the wrong behaviour , it just says the safest behaviour and , and then leaves , leaves the recipient to do the rest . |
| 12 | Rather than tensing up and pulling with all your arm strength , simply use your weight to do the work for you by leaning on your arms with a straight back . |
| 13 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 14 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 15 | ‘ We used an interesting piece of equipment to do the job , ’ says Steve . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I was needed at home to do the work . ’ |
| 17 | If the stain persists , ask a professional carpet cleaner to do the work for you . |
| 18 | You then need a small piece of wood to do the scribing . |
| 19 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 20 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 21 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 22 | In his view , it is a complete fallacy to say that downsizing is cheaper — people should choose the right machine to do the job , he says , obviously enough . |
| 23 | You get an electrician to do the job for you and you write him a cheque in pints . |
| 24 | InterCity had to solve the problem of getting its passengers from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury and chose to do so by hiring a bus rather than paying another railway sector to do the job . |
| 25 | Their capacity to do the work was doubted : " a blackguard horde of broken down incompetents [ have been taken on ] to take up our work " . |
| 26 | The language tutors we have had on our courses were certainly not always given sufficient help to do the job asked of them , and as Language Enhancement Coordinator , I take my share of responsibility for this . |
| 27 | compared to the importance of getting the right consultant to do the work , alright ? |
| 28 | Use another package to do the work . |
| 29 | Either consolidate the existing DCs or use another package to do the work . |
| 30 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |