Example sentences of "[prep] do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but really I mean you need the odd week at home do n't you really to sort of do bits to it , you ca n't work and do it |
| 2 | Below : Jockeys Steve Smith Eccles ( left ) and Peter Scudamore are close friends and business partners , despite doing battle on the turf |
| 3 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 4 | The prospect of doing battle with ‘ Jaz ’ every day is getting more and more depressing . |
| 5 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 6 | Erm what 's the sort of real shape , it 's not just you it 's everyone sort of doing GCSEs at the moment , erm I 'm getting this quite a lot . |
| 7 | Other factors identified by Jahoda and Warr as important for health may , however , be provided by workfare : these include a time structure to the day , social contacts outside the family , a sense of doing things with others , regularity , and ‘ traction ’ ( the quality that leads to the maxim ‘ If you want something done quickly ask a busy person ’ ) . |
| 8 | Now , I know a sum of money of nearly twenty thousand may not seem a lot of money in total , it 's not a lot of money in terms of , it can be quite a large sum in terms of doing things with economic development . |
| 9 | I 'm going to start off by suggesting why people like yourselves ought to be much more pro-active , take a much more lead in terms of doing things with the media . |
| 10 | She writes that it was ‘ one of the best , but it did not suit John , as he was accustomed to follow his whims , and invent or discover for himself , and therefore did not like the regimentation of doing things at a given time . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes husbands have a bad habit of doing things like that , ’ he chuckled . |
| 12 | The purpose of the 1944 Regulations , and by inference like legislation , was to protect employees against the consequences of doing things by reason of inadvertence or inattention which they would not normally do . |
| 13 | Costs tend to be be I mean it costs now costs are those of doing things by hand . |
| 14 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 15 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 16 | Ta'kwanya refers to all those particular cultural capabilities a specific type of people have that enable them to live as they do : it is their means of living and fulfilling their material needs ; it is their way of doing things in the material sense . |
| 17 | In keeping with the tradition of doing things in a big way , the Texas authorities have always built large prisons . |
| 18 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 19 | Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards . |
| 20 | The confidence was breathtaking : Beauty , convenience and comfort lay in the promise of new ways of doing things in rationally planned large towns , where the public would now be protected ‘ from the results of selfish or short-sighted exploitation ’ ( Boumphrey , 1940 , p. 152 ) . |
| 21 | This was never articulated directly , a variety of subtler means were employed ; humour , to engage an audience and convey an important message without alienation ; sensuality , in a particular response to materials and experimentation , a need to manipulate materials and accepted methods of doing things in order to extend traditional boundaries , blurring and redefining the nature of art , craft and commercial design . |
| 22 | Obviously unions have their own traditions and their own ways of doing things in their own organizational structures . |
| 23 | Instead of doing loads of things |
| 24 | Much of the time we are reacting with unwanted stress because we are afraid of doing damage to our own self-concept . |
| 25 | It was very satisfactory and the two girls went to Helen 's flat to celebrate with a drink and discuss the possibility of doing work for the pet shop in Seabourne . |
| 26 | For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance . |
| 27 | but I ca n't see the point of doing vinyl on that anyway I really can not . |
| 28 | On the contrary , this nation 's deep-rooted and flourishing tradition of doing good by voluntary service is something which enriches our community . |
| 29 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 30 | Only an organisation of this kind was capable of doing justice to the cause of the deaf and dumb and of representing it properly at national level . |