Example sentences of "do most [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pocket calculator will do most of the work . |
| 2 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 3 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 4 | If you can do maths you can probably do most of the rest |
| 5 | Let the candidate do most of the talking . |
| 6 | The former would do most of the talking ; the latter said little . |
| 7 | Fraser and Ramsay had agreed that , since it was all the latter 's idea and the former was a man of action rather than words , Ramsay should do most of the talking . |
| 8 | You can do most of the job yourself with that old favourite , the Wet Test , a walk across the floor with damp feet . |
| 9 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 10 | And I actually believe that for your programme because you 've done most of the work , believe it or not , the problem is you have n't written everything down . |
| 11 | I do n't want to say too much about the tower because I 'll leave that to two , two chaps who done most of the work , Ron and Colin . |
| 12 | As the man who has to do most of the negotiating on single market measures , I know that there is still a long way to go . |
| 13 | I do the background briefing but the clients have to do most of the work , and so I always tell them . ’ |
| 14 | I am expected to do most of the work including taking care of him ( the mentally retarded boy ) which is very hard with all my school-work too . |
| 15 | Encourage the interviewee to do most of the talking . |
| 16 | allow the candidate to do most of the talking , |
| 17 | Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework . |
| 18 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 19 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 20 | Your best bet is to give the person who is going to do most of the riding top priority ; if a five foot five woman and her six foot husband want a horse between them so that she can compete and he can hack , they should find that a 16hh middleweight that is deep through the girth will suit them both . |
| 21 | Many adverts are specifically aimed at women , supposedly because they do most of the shopping . |
| 22 | Er it 's true that hunting animals like for instance er female cats , the cat family , lionesses and we know lionesses do most of the hunting , not the males that do the hunting normally , they have canine teeth . |
| 23 | Male birds do most of the singing , which gives an immediate clue that singing has something to do with sex . |
| 24 | The front and both sides are not hindered by the battery , and these are the areas that do most of the work . |
| 25 | The brakes can be used fiercely to minimise the roll , but we let aerodynamic drag do most of the work , leaving them to slow us to taxi speed and steer onto the taxiway ( still ineffectually prodding the rudder pedals ) . |
| 26 | For in developing countries , it 's women who do most of the work and receive least money . |
| 27 | ‘ When we laugh the air out , our abdominal muscles do most of the work . |
| 28 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 29 | They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place . |
| 30 | According to one piece of research ( Managing Mothers , by Julia Brannen and Peter Moss ) working mothers not only do most of the household chores when they get back from work , they actually expect to do so . |