Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After scoring his spectacular debut goal , Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough 's travelling fans and did a somersault . |
| 2 | ‘ He helps a lot with kids and does a lot of good work behind the scenes . |
| 3 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 4 | Billy hunched his shoulders and did a quick shuffle . |
| 5 | After that you go into a big room and they look through your clothes and they ask you questions , then you have to pull your knickers down to your knees and do a twizzle , twist round , pull your pants up and put your dressing-gown back on . |
| 6 | got to break it down into little steps and do a bit at a time |
| 7 | In the archipelago as a whole 11 of the 1394 endemics have these nectaries as do a number of indigenous non-endemics . |
| 8 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 9 | The Braithwaites , Joseph and Daniel , were employed on a regular basis as masons and did a great deal of work , not only on the mine , but off it , such as at Cat Bank where a large amount of walling was required apart from the actual building . |
| 10 | ‘ My first job is to learn Saatchi 's activities and to do a good job of selling the consulting businesses , ’ he said , in a reference to the company 's previously announced plans to sell its management consultancy arm . |
| 11 | I did an evening ride along some backblocks roads , all gravel , and the next day we all hired bikes and did a similar route . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ he hissed back at her , ‘ it need n't look like a hovel , if you 'd get off your big fat arse at times and do a bit of scrubbin' . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It need n't look like a hovel , ’ he had said , ‘ if you 'd get off your big fat arse at times and do a bit of scrubbin' . ’ |
| 14 | Singers are scarce , and when it came time to record more versions and do a spot of promotion she was unavailable . |
| 15 | And since high fliers can also start their own firms or do a management buy-out , boardroom pay has to offer some of the rewards of entrepreneurship . |
| 16 | But , despite its politics , Simon 's book cuts a refreshing swathe through some rarely-challenged assumptions and does a rather neat demolition job on the second type of writer on population . |
| 17 | Thereafter the firm might carefully choose one or two platforms and do a thorough porting job , probably thinking at the same time ‘ there must be another way . ’ |
| 18 | France , for example , facing recession and rising unemployment , has seen European neighbours that do a quarter of its trade devalue their currencies by a real 10% since last September . |
| 19 | I promise to do my best : To obey the Law of the Brownies and to do a good thing every day . |
| 20 | I could knock up some lightweight special frames and do a positive test on their value . |
| 21 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 22 | Right Colin Francome enlivened the Millbank stand by donning a pair of stilts and doing a spot of juggling to promote his book Juggling for All |
| 23 | It no more lies within the field of morals than does a cross-word puzzle . |
| 24 | Realizing that they have an easy theme for an otherwise unsellable product , they join hands and do a music-hall turn singing : |
| 25 | Well my feeling on the roundabout is that we need to do , count ins and outs and do a sample . |
| 26 | Paula and Louise had been nominated to sell the raffle tickets and did a round of the hall , flirting outrageously and telling all the boys the tickets were ‘ sixpence each or two shillings a strip ’ . |
| 27 | I promise to do my best to love God and my family , to follow the law of the Little Bees and do a good turn to somebody every day . |
| 28 | Women would chain themselves to railings , throw themselves under horses and do a dozen other crazy things in the cause of suffragettism . |
| 29 | Thereafter the firm might carefully choose one or two systems and do a thorough conversion job , probably thinking at the same time ‘ there must be another way . ’ |
| 30 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |