Example sentences of "do [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time — it is the first step in making decisions . |
2 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
3 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
4 | There is nothing to stop the parties agreeing , after a dispute has arisen , to refer their dispute to an expert for his determination , and this is done from time to time , in the same way as arbitration agreements . |
5 | So , whilst the Council at its present level of spending under its present control , which is not ours , will have to make savings in expenditure , it is our belief it can be done without detriment to services . |
6 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
7 | However , my brief was to make a virtue of necessity , as we all have to do from time to time , and concentrate on the planting . |
8 | There should be some monitoring of what the statutory agencies were doing in relation to West Belfast . |
9 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
10 | of course obviously now I do n't know what he 's doing from day to day |
11 | Then in the long run I did in fact to Superintendent about the information we had gleaned from this telephone call . |
12 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
13 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
14 | ‘ Consequently , local authorities have somewhat greater discretion in the environmental health area than they do in relation to council house sales ’ ( p. 103 ) . |
15 | But doctors and nurses do from time to time brush aside the protests of aged , dying or mentally affected patients . |
16 | ‘ It was just one of those quirky , naughty , wild sort of drunken things that people do from time to time , ’ said Lowe . |
17 | We certainly have not ceased erm to undertake educational work and erm I do from time to time er do a number of reports on that work for er our funding bodies and er recently I 've done a report requested by Northern Arts , for the Arts Council I believe . |
18 | Although we do not everywhere have the precision of Mesozoic chronology , we do from time to time find evidence , in all parts of the stratigraphical column , of very rapid and very spasmodic deposition in the most harmless of sediments . |
19 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
20 | And now , if you will have me , we will hasten from this place , before the magician returns , as he does from time to time , to see if I have relented . ’ |
21 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is entitled to change his view , as he does from time to time . |
22 | The word ‘ colic ’ in relation to horses has as ominous a sound as the word ‘ cancer ’ does in relation to people . |