Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 2 | I 'm sure very , very few brothers ever do that , sometimes if a mistake is made you might get an assignment like that , which is dealing with er maybe er marital problems or , or certain areas er with , within that sphere , where it 's given to youngsters then , then that would be wrong would n't it ? |
| 3 | The trouble is I 'm quite sure that the plasterers never did that . |
| 4 | Very few animals actually do this . |
| 5 | Gon na take ages just to do this ! |
| 6 | and , what happened was it was a hell of a stink in dock , because there was all different workers for different jobs , it was one for fitting car seats , you had one for fitting glass , you had one for doing engine , one for fitting the gear box , one fitting wheels on , so you had ten blokes just doing one job on a car |
| 7 | Rather than just listening to us do all the work , we 're going to divide up into two groups just to do one or two trial interviews as it were , to get the feeling for the thing , to get some of your opinions coming up . |
| 8 | Nature programmes always do one thing : they shake our faith in the idea that man is the superior species on earth . |
| 9 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 10 | I would also be required to go to Bristol a couple of days later to do some work in the studio and , I assumed , to help with the editing . |
| 11 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
| 12 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
| 13 | A stranger who enters the land for a few weeks solely to do some work on it does not fall into this category . " |
| 14 | She sees assessments as involving a dialogue with the client , with social workers sometimes doing therapeutic work as part of the process . |
| 15 | Rats tested up to about 12 hours later do less and less well . |
| 16 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 17 | The bitches all do that . |
| 18 | So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed . |
| 19 | As well as specifications defined by its own workgroups , X/Open will adopt de jure and de facto standards from other organisations , vendors and consortia already doing relevant work including ISO , IEEE , the Object Management Group ( objects ) , SPAG ( interoperability ) , SQL Access Group ( database access ) and the Network Management Forum ( Omnipoints distributed network management ) . |
| 20 | It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this . |
| 21 | J.B. Priestley thought that women were good at deflating social pretension : Victoria Wood 's jokes certainly do this . |
| 22 | Despite this rule , writers commonly do this , as can be seen from the following examples : The quasi-totality of students in my department , opted for English … |
| 23 | Even where both spouses do full-time paid work , wives generally do more of the housework , particularly child-care . |
| 24 | Trade unions will be placing with their lawyers a large amount of employment-related personal injury work and the lawyers already doing that work will be highly specialised . |
| 25 | Moods also do that to me , and I am fighting a dark one . |
| 26 | It 's like , sort of thefts of motor vehicles , we can reduce the theft of the actual vehicle , because there are security devices now to do that , to make it harder and you can not odds somebody coming along the street , throwing a brick through a window and grabbing your cassette out . |
| 27 | For heaven 's sakes , did girls really do such things ? |
| 28 | The normal activity you 'll find in a primary classroom is groups of children all doing different things scattered round the room . |
| 29 | Children just do dangerous things — they run in front of swings , go down the slide backwards … |
| 30 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |