Example sentences of "[verb] do [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 2 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 3 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 4 | This principle in Hinduism is called ‘ Pancha Bhootas ’ and has to do with the five states of creative substances and their relationship to the five sensory faculties . |
| 5 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 6 | If he hopped into bed with you that night , he was only doing what he 'd done with a hundred and one others . ’ |
| 7 | What was I going to do with a 50 seater coach ? |
| 8 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 9 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 10 | I could have done with the two hundred and thirty quid though |
| 11 | To take one of the most outstanding examples mentioned by Bob Bocock in one of his books , I forget which one it is now , but in one of his books , Bob Bocock er , mentions that the doyen of mid-twentieth century sociology , Talker Parsons , who some of you perhaps may never of heard of , but er , you certainly would have done in the sixties and seventies , because he really was the major fi figure in Anglo-American social theory . |
| 12 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 13 | What does the Minister intend to do about the 1,719 prisoners who are being held in police cells ? |
| 14 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 15 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 16 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 17 | By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 19 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 20 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 22 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 23 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 24 | This she continued to do into the thirties . |
| 25 | A B Ed student must , therefore , undertake an academic study as part of his/her training ( just as the certificated teacher had to do in the 1920s ) . |
| 26 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 27 | Nurses , teachers , the police and local authority employees will be among those asked to make do with a 1.5 per cent increase in 1993 . |
| 28 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 29 | have to do by the twenty eighth of February so |