Example sentences of "do with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is most frequently done with the middle finger .
2 But the lettering 's done with the right hand by a left handed male , of medium height and weight , probably in his forties . ’
3 Your Alexander teacher will show you how this can be done with the minimum amount of effort .
4 The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing ’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail . ’
5 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
6 Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits .
7 Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ?
8 How easy to give them the book they sought , to be done with the entire affair .
9 Imagine what might be done with the collected works of Alexander Hamilton when the Founding Fathers project eventually provides them on CD-ROM sometime in the not too distant future .
10 ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past .
11 As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks .
12 The academic establishment refused to entertain the possibility that this doctrine was of any wider significance to criminal law beyond the local issue of what is to be done with the drunken offender and , within that narrow compass , that the doctrine was coherent or justifiable .
13 as has been done with the two examples in the previous section .
14 All must be done with the required ceremony .
15 And that was done with the new ball .
16 8 Sunday settled this book and wrote letter — 24 plates done with the first ground in 32 days — I think when the days get long — one of these plates may be done in a day …
17 ‘ Fifteen puppies to be done with the first injection .
18 I would simply place a card with the initials and dates 1921–1939 alongside the material — as I 've done with the other exhibits And I 'd like to place it all between the Danziger and Eberhardt donations . ’
19 Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business .
20 Belle and I floored another hen betwixt the pair of us , and I shall be no sooner done with the present writing racket than I shall put myself outside a pint of Guinness .
21 But there is much work to be done with the econometric modelling of rational expectations and of innovative behaviour in financial markets before their policy implications can be fully understood .
22 This may be done with the best intentions and will help empty the overflowing kennels , but mistakes can cause new owners some shocks .
23 This may be done with the best intentions , but it can lead to frustration and arguments .
24 And sometimes what may seem cruel , such as the speed with which the cattle are rattled through the ring , is done with the best intentions .
25 This was done with the frigid politeness of two people who do not like each other , know they do not like each other , but have never let that dislike come out into the open .
26 This must be done with the prior approval of the Council of Ministers or its Executive Committee " .
27 ‘ I suppose ’ , she said , with one last , earnest look in the mirror , ‘ it 's something to be almost done with the bloody decades .
28 A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims …
29 The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors .
30 Figure 6.3 is about the best that can be done with the lunar data at present .
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