Example sentences of "to do [art] " in BNC.

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1 She is indeed ready to die , and it is a difficulty that Justin may feel that he has to do the same .
2 I always wanted to do the heavy parts .
3 The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work .
4 Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ?
5 Some companies offer to do the training either on their own premises or at the client site .
6 I shall certainly buy and use it , and advise anyone else who is fascinated by the food we work with to do the same .
7 ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’
8 I went to Florence to do the Uffizi . ’
9 I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money .
10 When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary .
11 The trick is , I think , to do the ‘ compassionate ’ thing .
12 It is sometimes quite hard for a person to do the unconventional , but that may be the only safe option .
13 Trying to do the normal thing can be the cause of accidents with cable breaks and winch failures on smaller gliding sites .
14 Others persuade their instructors to do the very minimum necessary and state categorically that they hate stalls .
15 I explained again : about my job description , custom and practice and my right to do the work for which I was employed .
16 White-shirted beyond belief , incredibly anxious to please , to do the English thing .
17 I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making .
18 You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice .
19 They will need to do the same if they are interpreting music .
20 It is well worth visiting just as a tourist or to do the five-hour walk along the bottom of the gorge .
21 But if you 're prepared to learn how to do the wiring and to do the ‘ building ’ work ( and redecorating ) involved , it 's not difficult to improve the lighting arrangements in your home by fitting new permanent lights , and by doing something about the switching set-up .
22 But if you 're prepared to learn how to do the wiring and to do the ‘ building ’ work ( and redecorating ) involved , it 's not difficult to improve the lighting arrangements in your home by fitting new permanent lights , and by doing something about the switching set-up .
23 We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick .
24 TIF , and many other types of file , all to do the same job ?
25 Any 8-bit microprocessor will work , since no multiplication or division is necessary in the software , although it would be of advantage to use a 16-bit device to do the scaling of signals internally .
26 But Mr Lawson has to show he knows how to do the trick , before he can win his argument , in theory or in the markets .
27 But books that appeal to adults too are just as important ; we are , after all , the ones who have to do the reading .
28 A vast , smoke-blackened furnace ; 100 people to do the work ; massive investment — the company spent £2m last year on cleaning up smoke emissions .
29 The Goldsmith plan to break up BAT has been overtaken by BAT 's decision to do the job itself .
30 A middle-aged disabled woman attempts to do the same , edging gingerly down the exactly 100 Keep Fit steps , one by painful one .
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