Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 3 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 4 | I do n't like the title , it 's probably done for the right reasons but … well … |
| 5 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 6 | I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA . |
| 7 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 8 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |
| 9 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 10 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 11 | This may well be done through the normal structures of parents ' evenings and reports . |
| 12 | Well I thought if I get one this size , that will do for a few weeks rather than take some of them home and mess about better than there 's a big packet like a big one at home I 've just opened this morning so it 's |
| 13 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
| 14 | ( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . ) |
| 15 | ( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . ) |
| 16 | The real problem is getting something done about the cheap imports . ’ |
| 17 | How would we have done against the Antipodean giants ? |
| 18 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | as has been done with the two examples in the previous section . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This may be done with the best intentions and will help empty the overflowing kennels , but mistakes can cause new owners some shocks . |
| 25 | This may be done with the best intentions , but it can lead to frustration and arguments . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose ’ , she said , with one last , earnest look in the mirror , ‘ it 's something to be almost done with the bloody decades . |
| 29 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 30 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |