Example sentences of "[adv prt] do the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the will be floating in the river when we went down to do the foundations , so it , it has cost a lot more money in , than we anticipated , and certainly in time and effort . |
| 2 | When they went down to do the chassis |
| 3 | They glimmered reproachfully out of Florence 's golden face when Jinny sat down to do the evening milking . |
| 4 | ‘ The Scotch lassies came down to do the herring for the barrel processing , the same as the Dutch , the pickle processing , and some splitting for kippers in the fish-houses . |
| 5 | We 'll have to get someone in to do the cooking . ’ |
| 6 | Get someone in to do the cooking ? |
| 7 | Mrs Marjorie Yaxlee , cousin on his father 's side , would be in to do the cooking round six . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 9 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 10 | Thereafter , having performed on Brian 's ‘ Back To The Light ’ LP , Neil was pencilled in to do the tour … |
| 11 | By this time Gordon Sloan , a Reporter from Strathclyde Region , had been brought in to do the work in Orkney , as the islands ' own Reporter , Mrs Katherine Kemp , was still under suspension , and the details of her case were lying on the Secretary of State 's desk in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Anyway , when the accountant came in to do the books he said er , oh he said you 've got to pay something . |
| 13 | But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system . |
| 14 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
| 15 | see some guys would have to get somebody in to do the lot would n't they ? |
| 16 | I only drove over to do the shopping and to pick Christine up from School . |
| 17 | Erm I mean maybe they have n't had very much , but erm but in , in a sense there 's a sort of huge commitment on their part to that , because they actually , I remember some chap came over to do the talk and I think he 's got four kids and he said , well you know , I did n't know how my kids were going to react to people fine you know |
| 18 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 19 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 20 | We , the Conservatives , would consider , where necessary , using consultants — pay them the once off to do the job and then the officers , who are highly qualified and highly paid , would be there to do the job , and that 's what we employ them for . |
| 21 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 22 | This had been done to give greater flexibility for time off to do the farm work . |
| 23 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 24 | Final touches for a midnight special performance by make-up lady Barbara Daley — the lady who later went on to do the make-up for Lady Diana on her wedding day . |
| 25 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 26 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 27 | That fact that in , a two years time I can go on to do the subjects that I want to do at the University in Scotland of my choice . |
| 28 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 29 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 30 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |