Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] do the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His three first-half points helped Magherafelt to a 0–6 to 0–3 interval lead , and the defence did the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ I think when we lose people , it 's more upsetting if they just suddenly die and we have n't had the opportunity to do the tending and caring . |
| 3 | Imagination you 've got the opportunity to do the call again . |
| 4 | The Knack also provided Crawford with the opportunity to do the sort of daredevil stunts for which he would later become famous . |
| 5 | In the active voice the subject of the sentence does the action . |
| 6 | Only if this is the case does the tax rate in the system not climb sharply . |
| 7 | ‘ We told the family how bad he was and won their permission for the vet to do the kind thing . ’ |
| 8 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 9 | We feed the information into a computer and the computer does the processing for us . |
| 10 | He had no clear view of the future , except that it must excel the present , as the present did the past . |
| 11 | Frances and Miles went off to the kitchen to do the washing-up ( and , no doubt , to talk annuities ) , leaving Charles to entertain the children . |
| 12 | His mother was in the kitchen doing the ironing and although the door was open she could n't see him . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ I was in the kitchen doing the dishes . |
| 14 | She liked the morning best , for it was then that she and the three other women who formed a team for one section of the building did the rooms , emptying waste-paper baskets , running a duster over desks , and vacuum.cleaning floors . |
| 15 | They are provided centrally in order to make the most effective use of resources and to give line managers the freedom to do the jobs they are paid to do . |
| 16 | no , what I 'm saying is I think that 's something that the B A I E education committee nationally should sit down and have a look at , I mean it may well be that at the end of the day Napier would set a better exam paper than they would er , also I 've suggested to them and again they have n't that Napier validate the course do the marking but with perhaps two B A I E fellows |
| 17 | For how long in the future does the decision affect the business , and how quickly can the decision be reversed if it is later found to be a bad one ? |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't shake the tree : let the wind do the work . ’ |
| 19 | Let the wind do the work and pull you up on the board . |
| 20 | ‘ Myself , I am thankful to finish second and thank Williams for giving me the car to do the job . ’ |
| 21 | Only in the spring does the waterfall recover , and then it roars with delight at regaining life , just as I did . |
| 22 | It 's a squad game and there is still enough ability at the club to do the business and win 90 per cent of their games . |
| 23 | It never says this is the right behaviour or this is the wrong behaviour , it just says the safest behaviour and , and then leaves , leaves the recipient to do the rest . |
| 24 | You know , imagine it if you had to carry it all around , going , doing the shopping doing the lot |
| 25 | ‘ A great crowd assembled , ’ runs the report in The Sexual Life of Our Time , ’ from the midst of which the unfortunate couple were removed in a closed carriage , and taken to the hospital , and not until chloroform had been administered to the girl did the spasm pass off and free the man . ’ |
| 26 | If a woman 's place is in the home doing the cooking ( Letters NI 191 ) — how come most of the top chefs in restaurants are men ? |
| 27 | Then you key in the amount of cash you want — and the machine does the rest , including debiting your Midland Current Account . |
| 28 | The valuer does the work pursuant to his contract of employment and the society provides the report to the borrower pursuant to the contract between them . |
| 29 | I I got to that erm question you know you said could n't do any the geometry do the rest . |
| 30 | He creates a sense of a primal energy suffusing man as the sun does the air and fire a coal ( 10.110.56 – 72 ) and in his writing he tries to bridge the gap between intellectual acknowledgement of such a truth and experience of its reality . |