Example sentences of "[noun pl] to do [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
| 2 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 3 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 4 | She asked for identification and we 'd urge all parents to do the same . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , a pragmatist judge almost invariably applies his new rules retrospectively and encourages other judges to do the same , this will achieve a further , very great benefit for their community . |
| 6 | I 'm going to ask the other plant conveners to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | He removed a birdcage containing a mechanical singing canary from his chair and sat down , gesturing for his guests to do the same . |
| 8 | They want their governments to do the same , especially on defence . |
| 9 | The plaintiff may have made the most material changes in his position , and have induced the object of his affections to do the same , and have incurred pecuniary liabilities resulting in embarrassments , which would be in every sense a loss , if the income which had been promised should be withheld ; and if the promise was made in order to induce the parties to marry , the promise so made would be , in legal effect , a request to marry . |
| 10 | Conspiratorial imagery was used : ‘ The Zionists continue to attack and criticize Mialster Farrakhan and they pull the strings of their Black and White political marionettes to do the same . ’ |
| 11 | But there are no plans to do the same here . |
| 12 | Although sections of electricity line near the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales had been undergrounded following a public outcry , there were no plans to do the same where the route skirted the North York Moors National Park . |
| 13 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 14 | When his own daughter passed the age of twelve , Salah kept her at school and persuaded the parents of six of her contemporaries to do the same . |
| 15 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 16 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 17 | A middle-aged disabled woman attempts to do the same , edging gingerly down the exactly 100 Keep Fit steps , one by painful one . |
| 18 | Silent Scream attempts to do the same for Larry Winters , a Glaswegian murderer who waxed poetic behind bars before topping himself . |
| 19 | Vivid Publishing in Los Altos , California , makers of the TypeView font utility for Next , has come up with an environmentally aware software packaging scheme it 's calling EarthPack and challenging other software vendors to do the same : it 's making the specifications available to any who inquire and will license the EarthPack name free of charge . |
| 20 | Teachers will ensure there is an oral component in any assessment procedure they devise , and will pressure external examination bodies to do the same . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 22 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 23 | ( 7 ) Archive material is unique and irreplacable , and history teachers should handle original material carefully and encourage their pupils to do the same . |
| 24 | We would encourage all restaurants , cafeterias , delicatessens , food vending services and convenience stores to do the same . |
| 25 | Persuade a couple of typists to do the same . |
| 26 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 27 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 28 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 29 | They let it be known around school that they were collecting waste paper and asked the others to do the same so they could weigh it all in . |
| 30 | The head needs to give priority to the close analysis of practice , exploring the different kinds of learning going on in classrooms , reflecting it back to staff , assessing , estimating , reflecting and asking others to do the same . |