Example sentences of "[Wh pn] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , as I said to you just now , ’ said the lady , ‘ there are still Brownies who do good turns , although they are n't fairy folk but real girls like this one — and about her age too . ’ |
| 2 | No , no , I mean blokes who live on their own , men who help , men who do other work about the house , even if it is n't cleaning and that . |
| 3 | I was in charge of a shift of , at that time , approximately twenty constables er four or five sergeants who do normal patrol work in uniform at . |
| 4 | Clearly there are vast differences in this respect between married and unmarried women , mothers and non-mothers and those who do paid work as well as housework . |
| 5 | We already know that a large majority of women who do paid work at home feel themselves tied by child-care responsibilities . |
| 6 | The adviser might contact the electricity board for Sally to prevent her supply being cut off , and John could be furnished with a list of local solicitors who do legal-aid work . |
| 7 | " It 's people like that who do terrible things . " |
| 8 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 9 | He criticised ‘ as a policy mess ’ the present position where so many would-be solicitors are prevented from obtaining discretionary awards from local authorities , are unable to enjoy preferential rates under the Government 's student loan scheme , and are finding it increasingly difficult to find places in already hard pressed high street firms who do legal aid work . |
| 10 | The Royal Naval Reserve , composed of civilians who do regular training , would man the new minesweepers in wartime . |
| 11 | civilian employees who do certain jobs to relieve the P C so that he can go back out onto the streets . |
| 12 | People speaking our own language , people who do similar things to ourselves . |
| 13 | In a small firm the lawyers who do personal injury are readily identifiable . |
| 14 | 2 ) the extent to which Northern Irish institutions of higher education attract students as well qualified as those going ‘ across the water ’ ; Why do some courses in Britain attract better qualified students than those who do equivalent courses in Northern Ireland ? |
| 15 | " There are teachers who do whole group work and there are others who do small group work , and their approach is very different . " |
| 16 | However in many branches active members who do actual work , not just attending committee meetings are few . |
| 17 | In most branches active members who do actual work , not just attending committee meetings are few . |
| 18 | The vast majority of torturers are men simply because it is usually men who do military service , work as police or in concentration camps . |
| 19 | In the information-based organization , the knowledge will be primarily at the bottom , in the minds of the specialists who do different work and direct themselves . |
| 20 | These are the business academics who do expert research to produce expert theories and unworkable systems . |
| 21 | " There are teachers who do whole group work and there are others who do small group work , and their approach is very different . " |
| 22 | Those who do routine maintenance and even major repairs themselves will know that it 's no fun lying on your back under the car , trying to release that stubborn sump plug or awkward steering joint . |
| 23 | I draw no distinction between those who wield the weapons of destruction and those who do red-cross work . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps one of the new singers would be better — that little creature who did small parts last year , dark hair , pleasant little tinkling voice ? ’ |
| 25 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 26 | Inside and outside seemed so absolutely separate that once again Zen , drifting off into pleasantly dopey inattention , had the sensation of being a mere spectator of screen images , some television documentary about hardy men who did dangerous work for big money . |
| 27 | I mean presumably erm when erm er you know when er when people fight religious crusades , very often they see themselves as er justified by a religious precedence of the past by the great prophets of the past or , or , or great leaders who did similar things and er they , they consciously justify what they 're doing do n't they by saying well you know we 're er we 're , we 're doing , fighting this crusade or , or carrying out this policy er and these are the historical precedences . |
| 28 | The child was right when she said it was people like that who did terrible things . |
| 29 | Until March this year he was a music entrepreneur who did whacky stunts and ran an airline of the side . |
| 30 | A lumpish Belgian girl called Lise who did menial tasks about the house but hardly ever spoke was grating cheese over a rice dish . |