Example sentences of "done a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 2 | But he came more than he might have and he 'd done a bit with the bells in his heyday . |
| 3 | 'Can you dance ? ’ 'Well , I 've done a bit in the bath . ’ |
| 4 | On Saturday , he 'd cleaned the silver in the morning , done a bit round the House and visited his gran in the afternoon , returning at 3 pm . |
| 5 | I 've done a runner on the lot of them . |
| 6 | You have done a disservice to the African people by ignoring this fact . |
| 7 | Perhaps those hon. Members who have raised points of order have done a service to the hon. Members who wish to take part in the ballot . |
| 8 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |
| 9 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 10 | Well Right , David , you 've got a a an input there because we 've done a project with the erm er p with a technical college here . |
| 11 | Its chairman , Mr Tony Millar , has done a deal with the US Corporate Partners group which invests some £1billion of funds on behalf of US and foreign institutions like pension funds . |
| 12 | I 've done a deal with the Trust and Mirror readers can get this guide at the bargain price of 80p . |
| 13 | Xerox Corp 's Network and Professional Services organisation has followed IBM Corp down the well-beaten path to Chipcom Corp 's Southborough , Massachusetts headquarters and done a deal with the firm under which it will resell Chipcom 's ONline System Concentrator intelligent switching hub line in the US . |
| 14 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 15 | The DTI thought it had done a deal with the lawyers and police : by the end of last September these would say whether or not there were grounds for criminal charges . |
| 16 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 17 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 18 | The lad has done a lot for the club out in the middle and in the dressing room , but has n't answered our prime need — someone to knock over the opposition . |
| 19 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | You 've done a lot of the work for us , I 'm very appreciative to , of this , I 'm glad to say you have , in terms of sussing out what makes a good press release , if only because you 've found out what makes a bad press release . |
| 21 | We 've done a profile of the courses and guess what they all happen in the school holidays , so this is n't , this is n't over yet in fact for all the user groups , for you , the clubs and the organizations , it really does need a push from you , you must by and large are the deci decision makers , the club officers and I would ask you urgently whether or whether or not your clubs already got its name on the list , to actually support the people within your club that are laying these things on . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 23 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 24 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |
| 25 | I get up and open the window , then I see Satan 's done a job on the floor by the chair . |
| 26 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 27 | We 've done a review of the service , we did a review of field centres , we really do not accept that one area , no matter how worthwhile and I 've talked to you |