Example sentences of "the [noun pl] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans did some pretty horrible things here and then the Allies came and , well , they did some pretty horrible things too . |
| 2 | The Germans do this better than most : Frankfurt airport has a synthetic studded floor which is now widely imitated . |
| 3 | So you would n't have had any , so it could n't have been the tablets doing that |
| 4 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 5 | But the authorities did little to identify those responsible ; eyewitness evidence was never followed up and no autopsy was performed . |
| 6 | Students did not feel safe , yet the authorities did little to protect them . |
| 7 | Can I just say , Chairman , that the problem was that they asked for , the region asked for equal representation with the County Council , now if all the districts did that then there 'd be , then the Grants Panel would have about twenty one people to I mean , for the operation to go ahead . |
| 8 | Oh , when the lads did this , they went to great trouble to actually find the right sort of windows and what have you . |
| 9 | In recent weeks , two teams of researchers making the computers to do this job have signed agreements with companies to market their work . |
| 10 | The kids do that . |
| 11 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 12 | With foreign news the populars did less well on both counts . |
| 13 | I mean look , for forgetting the women , but just look look at who else did well in those elections and who did less well , you had the modernizers doing less well , the Tony Blairs and the Gordon Browns , and you had the traditionalists , or the perceived traditionalists if you prefer , er the John Prescotts , for instance , and the Frank Dobsons doing extremely well . |
| 14 | The experienced players stood around watching the youngsters do all the work . ’ |
| 15 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 16 | Oh , no oh no it 's not like that , it 's a proper model agency in er , in Nottingham , it , it sounds above board , well I 've heard of the , the lass that 's running it actually , she 's an ex page three girl , she 's er very good , you know , from what I 've heard it 's erm , it 's a reputable agency and er , yeah the ones of the sharks doing that , but er , she ai n't one of them thing is she doe she |
| 17 | The Conservatives did little to change the social security system in the period 1951–64 . |
| 18 | The ecologists did much less well than opinion polls predicted in elections to the 577-seat French National Assembly held in two rounds on March 21 and 28 , 1993 . |
| 19 | As gallery-owners , the Stangls did much to encourage Art Informel and the work of the ‘ Zen ’ group . |
| 20 | If he uses the banisters to do this , there should be rails on both sides of the stairs , to encourage symmetry of movement . |
| 21 | Builders in the wetlands did more than that however . |
| 22 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 23 | The money was good if you worked hard , really hard , but it took a while to get good enough on the machines to do that . |
| 24 | You just relax and let the machines do all your exercises for you . |
| 25 | But it 's whether , whether the officers do that and start the consultation or whether it 's done by P A G , I 'm getting a shaking of the head here , I think it needs a political decision as opposed to anything else . |
| 26 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 27 | A paper which I and colleagues in Grampian prepared for Scottish General Medical Services Committee posed the questions does this present an opportunity for general practice to have greater influence in the provision of health care for our patients ? does it put general practice in the driving seat in helping to determine the range and quality of health service provision ? or might it constitute an intolerable administrative burden on the constrained resources of an increasingly cash limited primary care service ? |
| 28 | Since only the United Nations can do the job of peacemaking , is the Minister concerned that just over half the value of the assessments on individual countries for last year has been paid , and will she therefore press other members of the international community to ensure that they give the United Nations the resources to do that necessary peacemaking and peacekeeping job ? |
| 29 | But we probably do n't inspect and give advice to people who 'd like us to , because they 're not a priority , and we do n't have the resources to do that . |
| 30 | Are they gon na have the resources to do that though ? |