Example sentences of "[vb past] to do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 2 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 3 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , as Fairbairns points out , both in this article and in her novel Benefits , when a houseworker fails to carry out her domestic duties ‘ properly ’ someone else ( usually another woman ) is brought in by the state and paid to do the identical job . |
| 5 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 6 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 7 | BOB MARLEY 'S eldest daughter , Cedella , never got to do the one thing she always desperately wanted — join her late father on tour . |
| 8 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 9 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 10 | Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition . |
| 11 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 12 | Tony with his ‘ hands on ’ approach to the practical side of moving and a view towards being economical , decided to do the whole move in house . |
| 13 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 14 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 15 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Mama always made sure that I learned to do the practical stuff , as well as fine embroidery and canvas work , ’ Sally-Anne had said . |
| 17 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 18 | Still , he had to do the honourable thing … . |
| 19 | He had to do the right thing . |
| 20 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 21 | I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove . |