Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Edwards says the horse is a good jumper so he 'll tell Judy to hang on and sit still and let the horse do the hard work . |
| 2 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 3 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 4 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 5 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 6 | I started by asking ‘ What sort of religion do the British favour ? ’ . |
| 7 | A long-time vegetarian , lang did a televised announcement on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , and cattle country was up in arms . |
| 8 | What sex aid did the Tibetan monk invent ? |
| 9 | Speed did a fine job just modelling his Asics sportswear , Kelly played great , Dorigo played really well . |
| 10 | The tyres screamed and fought for grip and then the whole car did a little wiggle like the backside of a pouncing cat and stormed on , back in the direction from which it had come . |
| 11 | The MBA do a superlative job maintaining these simple buildings , and set out a clear set of guidelines for their useage . |
| 12 | We enter Venice in the early morning and the light does a graceful palais glide along the sea , over the marsh lands . |
| 13 | In this case , the term does a great disservice to horses . |
| 14 | If an agent does a good job with the first one , and builds a successful relationship with the manager , there is no reason why that agent ca n't deal with all of a manager 's acts . |
| 15 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |
| 16 | The Inland Revenue does a difficult job in difficult circumstances extremely well . |
| 17 | For burying , a long-boarded general-purpose or lea plough does the cleanest job , turning up an unbroken , shiny furrow . |
| 18 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 19 | Although you need complicated equipment to do a full analysis you can , however , get a good idea from the colour , smell and taste . " |
| 20 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 21 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 22 | I am certain that a half-starved ferret has neither the strength nor the stamina to do a reasonable day 's work . |
| 23 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
| 24 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 25 | Barron 's National Business and Financial Weekly , on of the financial district 's most respected and oldest papers , in its Dec 27th issue did a major article on the subject claiming that the plane was sabotaged by either Gravier or by people whom he had swindled . |
| 26 | One problem not tackled is , what influence did the increasing sophistication of formal language after the High Renaissance have on colour usage ? |
| 27 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 28 | The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing . |
| 29 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 30 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |