Example sentences of "do [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 2 | Obviously there was not much that any Government concerned in governing the United Kingdom could do to meet the wilder demands of the " Left is Right Group " , but , since it was never clear whether these were immediate demands or merely long-term hopes , Cabinet office for Carolan and Under — Secretaryships for one or two of his more articulate followers contrived to keep the group within the Parliamentary fold . |
| 3 | Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo … |
| 4 | 15th , Monkeys on the Edge : What can be done to save the rare primates of Brazil 's Atlantic Forest ? |
| 5 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 6 | Miss O'Keeffe ( sic ) , is rather French , for though Proust , Paul Morand and Jean Cocteau had done all they can do to break the old forms , and ‘ French ’ may come to mean something else in the future ; at present it means planning the work out in one 's mind completely before beginning upon it . |
| 7 | In his report book he asked if something could be done to make the lunatic wards a little less depressing . |
| 8 | Nor has much been done to attack the soft commissions ( payments in kind ) given to fund managers to attract their business . |
| 9 | There was one girl , however , who knew what she must do to please the Great Spirits . |
| 10 | Five years of therapy later , I realise what a lot of ‘ work ’ we did have to do to understand the underlying reasons for my eating disorder , and for many other things in my life , and also to have a wider understanding of eating disorders in general and what they are about . |
| 11 | Erm generally , the er design of the houses compliments those which have already been built at the er , Southern Way and the side of the Ayletts Field , and the extension to Fern Hill er , in terms of their materials in terms of the landscaping , and they will er , as close as it 's possible to do match the refurbished bungalows in terms of including features such as block paving and erm car ports . |
| 12 | An and its time that that top corridor were made aware of just what sort of front line work we are doing to save the sixty-four officers on the beat that |
| 13 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 14 | I do prefer the round ones , though . |
| 15 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , many doctors did recognise the sexual connections of hysteria and the emotional conflicts behind it ; the problem remained one of treatment . |
| 17 | We will probably never know the extent of individual suffering endured by many of those 300 Africans , we do know the tragic circumstances of Orton Chirwa 's life . |
| 18 | Although our understanding of the whole and individual elements of the recreation system is very imperfect , we do know the main activities which generate the greatest growth and demand for space and we can identify current and potential conflicts with other land use activities . |
| 19 | So I do know the different things that do make people feel either a little bit better or might just help them . |
| 20 | And having done that , you then need some people , in fact , so you do need the two types of people and if you are the team leader , you have to find some way of getting them to work together . |
| 21 | But you do need the different personalities to come within a group to make a group successful . |
| 22 | Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments . |
| 23 | Indeed that smell did stimulate the gastric juices . |
| 24 | Mr Duggan is quite alone in his view that , to use his word , ‘ most ’ of Welsh players who did received the harshest punishments meted out by any R.F.U. — if you have any doubts ask Messrs Wheel and Moseley . |
| 25 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 26 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 27 | They certainly do bring the old repeats back do n't they ? |
| 28 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 29 | Swindon did see the good times . |
| 30 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |