Example sentences of "[verb] do the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for change of intention , this happens when a person has done the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course but subsequently wishes to be eligible to practise here . |
| 2 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 3 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 4 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 5 | But Ken has done the hard work for us . |
| 6 | No one has done the analogous count for all groups with maternal care . |
| 7 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 8 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 9 | Stand-up comedian MARK LAMARR has done the Christian thing and joined The Word as its new presenter . |
| 10 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 11 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 12 | ‘ Tony Stewart , Phil McNeill and Neil Spencer used to run the NME and Cynthia Rose used to try to do the serious side of it . |
| 13 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 14 | The farmer 's wife was the choice of over half but where possible others were included to do the heavy work . |
| 15 | The Chief Secretary said yesterday that he wanted a serious debate about the economy , yet the ridiculous , but no doubt expensive , campaign that the Government are running is designed to do the very opposite . |
| 16 | The Corporation wants to do the right thing by you . ’ |
| 17 | Well you see she wants to do the whole lot er cos it 's all She said , Feet are the only part of the human body she can tolerate . |
| 18 | Now for copyright reasons , if you want to do the Blind Watchmaker , and I 'd very much like you to , you 've got ta borrow the disk from me , okay ? |
| 19 | ‘ I wo n't run any of the major three championships after Barcelona , but I still want to do the big marathons , like London and New York . |
| 20 | And should n't you , you 've done the spare kitchen scissors good ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 22 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 23 | Bacci was n't sure if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 24 | And he 'd done the right thing in getting that wallet back to Blackbeard , because Blackbeard was horribly evil and would have come after them if Joe had n't been sensible . |
| 25 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 26 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 27 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 28 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 29 | He 'd done the right thing . |
| 30 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |