Example sentences of "do [verb] one [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , he has had a bonio , he likes a bonio , he did eat one last night , |
| 2 | The answers do confirm one applicable criterion , namely , whether the relevant regime is able of itself to ‘ exercise effective control of the territory of the state concerned ’ and is ‘ likely to continue to do so ; ’ and the statement as to what is to be the evidence of the attitude of Her Majesty 's Government provides another — to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , that Her Majesty 's Government has with it and whether they are on a normal government to government basis . |
| 3 | We do suggest one small change , to allow an employee 's payment method to be changed at the discretion of his employer , if at the time that he entered that employment , he had agreed to accept that change at some future time ( not necessarily specified ) . |
| 4 | We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff . |
| 5 | The failure of the Fouchet Plan did have one negative impact . |
| 6 | Well we did have one good result locally ; nice to see Abingdon Town back on the winning trail again ; Vauxhall League division two south that was , Abingdon Town three , Horsham nil , our reporter , Nick Quayle . |
| 7 | Er oh I did have one Polish lad who 's now left who used to go round looking for all the cans and he 'd then collect the ten p's ! |
| 8 | He did have one valid point , which unfortunately was the basis for his Groove Tubes bashing , and this was the transposition error pertaining to the state of electrons : ie. positively/negatively charged . |
| 9 | He did have one last setback , however : as long as he was not reciting he was free from tension in the neck but , as soon as he began to use his voice , all his old habits returned . |
| 10 | Surely they did have one last year , did n't they their outing . |
| 11 | Against this , it is arguable that one can feel the sense of waiting and subsequent satisfaction only when there is some expected framework , and the framework for language has no obvious parallels with non-linguistic ones ; so we do have one autonomous characteristic of language , even if all the others — equation of two elements , instantiation of one element by another , and so on — are part of the much more general perceptual and conceptual apparatus of human beings . |
| 12 | So erm so I ca n't confirm booking for that yet but we do have one more meeting before the big box pile up so not to worry . |
| 13 | I was ill for a lot of my boyhood , but I did manage one complete term at prep school . |
| 14 | We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’ |
| 15 | Much of Husameddin 's argument on the question of Molla Fenari 's death date thus falls down on close examination , but there does remain one compelling piece of evidence for his conclusion , namely the document apparently bearing Molla Fenari " s signature and dated Rabi " II 838/ November 1434 : in a real sense all else depends on this . |
| 16 | This is misleading because counselling is more than this , but it does provide one valuable element of the process . |
| 17 | But the 1588 volume does contain one tentative madrigal , a setting of Ariosto 's ‘ La verginella ’ , and a few months later appeared a collection which was a milestone in the naturalization of the madrigal in England . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , this suggestion by Rees does contain one useful pointer : if managers are non-altruistic , controls on them must influence their pay in order to affect performance . |
| 19 | But the shabbiness does indicate one other quality that is obligatory ; the private-eye must be a man of integrity . |
| 20 | However , the book does have one major drawback . |
| 21 | However , it does have one great advantage . |
| 22 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 23 | London Transport does not have to switch frequencies before 1990 , But this massive victory for British diplomacy does have one minor drawback — the transitional period does not apply to the new users . |
| 24 | But it does have one big thing going for it . |
| 25 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |
| 26 | But it does reveal one minor flaw in the RAF selection process when it comes to reading the character of recruits . |