Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be honest I never get much washing done during the winter months . |
| 2 | Why not leave slogging through all that real-time stuff to the critics , and just make do with the flashy emptiness of the trailer ? |
| 3 | With general improvements in standards of living , expectations have risen , so that young people are no longer prepared to do without the basic utilities or to accept a limited range of shops and services ( Thomas 1972 ) . |
| 4 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 5 | The additional part , which does not have to do with the connections stated by independent conditionals , is perhaps particularly necessary in connection with our conviction about the explanatoriness of the causal items . |
| 6 | He took a holiday he should not have done during the Gulf War crisis when this country was facing its greatest possible crisis . |
| 7 | The survey of 866 dentists in the dental journal The Probe , says : ‘ When dentists were asked whether they had extracted , or referred for extraction , any teeth which they might not have done before the introduction of the 1990 contract , 61 per cent said they had , while nearly 37 per cent said they had not . ’ |
| 8 | No doubt the now dispossessed Kurds and the Shiites have been surprised to learn that they did something they should not have done in the interests of geopolitical reality . |
| 9 | Sylvie spoke in French , as she normally continued to do in the house , and glared at her daughter . |
| 10 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 11 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 12 | This usually has to do with the guilt they feel connected with the death , or the shame they feel at their anger and resentment towards the one who has left them . |
| 13 | That 's all I always wanted to do in the lodge with a , with a little field at the side and all , I wanted to get a load of cars and dismantle them |
| 14 | The most difficult thing I ever had to do in the cinema was to kiss Christopher Reeve . |
| 15 | The name of John Gould soon became synonymous with the fantastic bower-bird , and gave a new ornithological slant to one of the popular songs of the day : ‘ Will you join in the evening and charm us as you ever have done at the piano ’ , asked Gould of Mrs Owen shortly after his return , ‘ … |
| 16 | I never asked her , but I do n't imagine oral penetration figured as high on her list of priorities as it did on mine , and she could probably have done without the anal variety altogether . |
| 17 | But it may also have to do with the so-called sports that were on display . |
| 18 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 19 | But some of these projects clearly also have to do with the problem of conserving the built heritage . |
| 20 | Yeah must be really good the thing that I really want to do in the Christmas holiday is go-carting |
| 21 | Eve looked out of the window down the town , standing as she must often have done over the years . |
| 22 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to ask ourselves what it is that we are really trying to do with the $66.8 billion we spend on health care ? |
| 24 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 25 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 26 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 27 | Or a chat line , except you do n't get done for the phone bills . |
| 28 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 29 | ( This undoubtedly has to do with the resultative nature of the passive . ) |
| 30 | They were on the Home Service , along with all the programmes about how to make do in the kitchen what with the rationing , and the fireside chats from the Prime Minister . |