Example sentences of "a [noun sg] do the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMPUTER-DATING AGENCIES These are a version of the friendship bureaux that use a computer to do the matching . |
| 2 | A STORY doing the rounds at Buck House is that one of Her Majesty 's television sets recently packed up . |
| 3 | In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question . |
| 4 | Where can I get erm , where can I get erm a pink to do the lattice on top of mince pies from . |
| 5 | Choosing a Club to do the Job |
| 6 | Not for a second did the notion cross Beatrice 's mind that Lovat was having carnal thoughts which he knew could never be fulfilled . |
| 7 | Let a trap do the waiting … |
| 8 | She was smoking her joint with quick snatches of breath , like a swimmer doing the crawl . |
| 9 | Which , of course , would just make it that much safer a place to do the business , if business had needed doing . |
| 10 | THE government 's emergency food programme , according to a joke doing the rounds in Havana , is like God ; everyone talks about it but nobody can see it . |
| 11 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 12 | There was a joke doing the rounds in art history faculties about the archetypal New Art Historian : invited to give a lecture , s/he turns up with only one slide . |
| 13 | He , say , needs a new roof on his house , so he checks how much he has in his account , gets a roofer to do the job , and writes him a cheque in pints . |
| 14 | She has a shiksah to do the housework . |
| 15 | Oh no , he wants to be an engine driver ‘ with a wife to do the cooking ’ . |
| 16 | A friend wrote requesting to have his salary allotted to the widow " and that she would get a person to do the business " , but Barratt could see no way for the widow to be of service . |
| 17 | Some people think that childminding is an easy job , but if they spent just half a day doing the work she does I am sure they would soon be ready for bed ! |
| 18 | Er Carole Vorderman , she 's not getting a chance to do the figures . |
| 19 | ‘ For a lot of the mums it 's a chance to do the day over again' Here comes the bride … probably in a coach and four , and cocooned in all the marital candyfloss that is now ‘ de rigueur ’ for the perfect day , writes Joan McAlpine All the frills of the fair Pictures by DAVID MITCHELL |
| 20 | For a lot of the mums it 's a chance to do the day over again . ’ |
| 21 | Franca , when can I have a drink did the doctor say ? ’ |
| 22 | Er or they 'd go out doi charring and go you know work the we used to have a woman come in once a week to do the washing . |
| 23 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 24 | I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | In more general terms , make can be characterized as denoting causation as direct or " concurrent " with the production of the effect — a person who makes a comment does the making and the commenting at the same time since the two processes can be identified with one another : make , in other words , evokes the actual producing of an effect . |
| 26 | He has a man to do the finances , but he drives the tractors and so on . |
| 27 | Nice to see a man doing the letters page as well as Miss Tart-lash . |
| 28 | There was a rumour doing the rounds a few weeks ago that one of the big supermarket chains was on the point of phasing out its organic food lines . |
| 29 | ‘ We put in front of them a project to do The Servant of Two Masters in the coming autumn . |
| 30 | A Rottweiler doing the job he was once bred for . |