Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 3 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 4 | It takes er one and a half days to do the base and er eight , eight days and eight Mondays to er to do the walls but two hundred and four , four days in total ca n't stop the concrete . |
| 5 | Some newspapers do The Star . . . |
| 6 | The only men in evidence at Group were the Met and Operations Room Officers , and a few erks to do the pen-pushing jobs . |
| 7 | But such officers do the King best service in the end . |
| 8 | In only one of these cases does the fact that the anthropologist was , up to a point , studying members of his own society appear as in any way an advantage . |
| 9 | But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) . |
| 10 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 11 | These facts do no more , however , than suggest that one ought not to rule out the possibility that Molla Fenari may have made the pilgrimage in company with Seyh Zeyneddin . |
| 12 | However , to take an example at random , how many times does the hon. Gentleman think that the Bundestag discussed the Maastricht agreement before it was signed ? |
| 13 | how many times does the moon go round the earth whilst the earth is going round the sun ? |
| 14 | Indeed , although their tactics were laudable , how many times did the England backline movement really look like succeeding in the Final ? |
| 15 | How many hours does the journey take ? |
| 16 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 17 | Someone analysed the competition : How many calls did the customer get from DEC , HP , etc ? |
| 18 | but the other one 's how many lips does a woman have ? |
| 19 | How many feet does the tide rise down at this dock ? |
| 20 | She asked for identification and we 'd urge all parents to do the same . |
| 21 | How many seats did the Liberal Party win at the next election ? |
| 22 | A recent report of the Institute of Directors on the professional development of directors ( 1990 ) led a spokesman to say that ‘ it is not surprising that many boards do an adequate rather than an excellent job ’ ( quoted in The Independent , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | How many sounds does a cat make ? |
| 24 | How many dresses does the County have in the collection ? |
| 25 | How many tail-signals does a cat make ? |
| 26 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 27 | How many games does the infinite lives cheat facility work on ? |
| 28 | How many leaps did the frog have to take before he was out of the ditch ? |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , Roger , how many friends does the Lord Cardinal have ? |
| 30 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |