Example sentences of "[vb infin] do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 2 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 3 | But what sort of machine do you need to do justice to the application . |
| 4 | Well I could n't take I could n't do nowt about it at all so I went to see t head of firm and Aye , he says , it 's bad , he says , we do n't know to do things like that . |
| 5 | We could do do things like that |
| 6 | Keegan does n't expect to do business before Sunday 's game with Millwall but is clearly ready for a transfer market breakthrough . |
| 7 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 8 | The rasp of the Pratt and Whitney R985 radial engine is not quite so authentically nostalgic as the putter of the old Tiger Moth 's Gipsy Major , but lost of people do like to do things in pairs while on holiday . |
| 9 | The Russians do not like to do business with American companies so this is convenient arrangement for all concerned . ’ |
| 10 | At school or college you can volunteer to do publicity for the school play , or your local community charity drive . |
| 11 | Because I , I can remember doing matrices on G C S E. Most of it , I ca n't remember . |
| 12 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't want to do housework for the rest of my days — working in other people 's houses — but I have to do it until something better comes along . ’ |
| 14 | The ferret is generally recognised as a powerful opponent and few other creatures would want to do battle with her . |
| 15 | And one of the firm 's executives complained : ‘ We do n't want to do business with this man any more . ’ |
| 16 | Do you want to do research in schools — especially in schools other than your own ? |
| 17 | Do you want to do research in schools — especially in schools other than your own ? |
| 18 | In September 1764 , eighteen months after they first met , Boswell told Johnson in a letter from Saxony , ‘ It shall be my study to do what I can to render your life happy ; and , if you die before me , I shall endeavour to do honour to your memory . ’ |
| 19 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 20 | We should then move to do things about , for example , Turl Street and erm Cornmarket itself and gradually move on that way towards improving the City centre for pedestrians . |
| 21 | erm when did they stop doing work on aircraft there , do you recall about what year that would be ? |
| 22 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 23 | You you should have done counties of England . |
| 24 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 25 | The draw ceremony was conducted seductively by Sophia Loren , operatically by Pavarotti , efficiently by Joseph Blatter , the Fifa general-secretary , and set against a background of studied chaos which would have done credit to a film by Fellini . |
| 26 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 27 | The Westons ' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbuckling imagination of a Stevenson , Scott or Dumas . |
| 28 | The drive would have done credit to a New York Yellow cab , and in no time at all I was being dumped at my hotel — on the blind side but within reach of my room and some assistance . |
| 29 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 30 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |