Example sentences of "to do [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 2 | ‘ I rather hope I may get those concerned to invite me to do you in the Authors and their Work series — though I have n't done anything about it — I might then like to quote a bit or two out of a letter ( e.g. about Ivy ) , but I devoutly hope you will be able to censor the thing for yourself ’ — for there was still hope , or I was allowed to think so . |
| 3 | But for that old lady , I had been ordered to do her for the fire . |
| 4 | They 've had to do it during the weekend , a distance of eighty five miles , and it goes across five counties . |
| 5 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 6 | it 's , I ca n't see any other way to do it at the moment , I mean probably when I |
| 7 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 8 | I think I did , I thought about that but I ca n't afford to do it at the moment there look see you can get the , the L ones the double seat ones and the little ones look |
| 9 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
| 10 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 11 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of our traders , particularly the younger ones , compete to see who can wear the most outrageous clothes , ’ says a spokesman , ‘ There was a discussion to do it as a joke but there was not a real consensus . |
| 13 | And he means to do it as a joke does he ? |
| 14 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 15 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 16 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 17 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 18 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 19 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 20 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 21 | Appeal organisers would like anyone thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the day care centre . |
| 22 | Appeal organisers would like anyone else thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the day care centre . |
| 23 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 24 | Appeal organisers would like anyone thinking of holding a coffee morning or jumble sale in aid of a worthy cause to do it for the centre . |
| 25 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 26 | It plans to do it with a range of shoes , which although a complete change from last year , still concentrates on the technical merits of StableAir . |
| 27 | Like , here was his first big song and everybody had come to see it , and he 's not going to do it with a rhythm section — just acoustic guitar . |
| 28 | The man who wanted to do it with a cigarette in his mouth . |
| 29 | And we 're going to do it with a graph . |
| 30 | Unfortunately it 's chosen to do it with the Disc . |