Example sentences of "do [adj] of the work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 2 | Can I come and do some of the work there . |
| 3 | Informix says it 'll do some of the work itself , but will go to partners and other developers for the body of it . |
| 4 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 5 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 6 | A pocket calculator will do most of the work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I just told her that it might be interesting for me to get to know something of France , after all I was still young for University Entrance and could probably arrange to do some of the work here . |
| 10 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 11 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 12 | Rather than analyse speech mathematically it is possible to do much of the work electronically . |
| 13 | While the costs levied on the latter are generally lower ( you only pay dealing charges ) , you 'll need to do more of the work to get the best possible return . |
| 14 | I do the background briefing but the clients have to do most of the work , and so I always tell them . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In effect , we are doing some of the work unpaid , with a view to getting more of the benefits when the product sells . ’ |
| 17 | Billie Rudyard , who is co-ordinating the course , explained : ‘ The women will be able to get ‘ hands on ’ experience during the course , by doing some of the work at the new centre . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm I 'm I 'm interested in you you you doing more of the work than me if we can . |
| 19 | Perhaps he did some of the work on them , but I do n't believe he did everything sold under his name . ’ |
| 20 | The front and both sides are not hindered by the battery , and these are the areas that do most of the work . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | For in developing countries , it 's women who do most of the work and receive least money . |
| 23 | ‘ When we laugh the air out , our abdominal muscles do most of the work . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | D9531 did most of the work , but on the day your scribe volunteered for train-crew duty , visiting North Staffs Railway 4F 0-6-0 No. 4422 was marked up on the engine roster . |
| 26 | But I think Sabine Jourdain did most of the work on the paintings and I think you knew it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had the help of a bricklayer and a carpenter from time to time , but no , in the main I did most of the work myself . |
| 28 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables , but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 29 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 30 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |