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Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail .
3	‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’
4	Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her .
5	It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open .
6	WHAT 'S BEING DONE FOR THE 11,000 DEAF AND BLIND ?
7	Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers .
8	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 .
9	If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ?
10	When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased .
11	( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . )
12	( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . )
13	Or then you 'd do like the four , four , four flares
14	If he hopped into bed with you that night , he was only doing what he 'd done with a hundred and one others . ’
15	as has been done with the two examples in the previous section .
16	I could have done with the two hundred and thirty quid though
17	There are certain things you can do with a sixteen year old .
18	There are certain things you can do with a sixteen year old .
19	I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily
20	Nurses , teachers , the police and local authority employees will be among those asked to make do with a 1.5 per cent increase in 1993 .
21	What would you do with a million pounds ?
22	What do you do with a 46 year-old , 5 foot nothing , exceedingly chubby hubby who 's convinced he 's Batman ?
23	That 's one for Joanne , one for Natalie , one for Kerry Now what would you do with the two that you 've got left over ?
24	What you gon na do with the five ?
25	He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties .
26	Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) .
27	According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else .
28	However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s .
29	By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s .
30	Some of the early work in this area was done in the 1970s by Schofield , who used a simple system of asking users to complete a slip of paper for each ‘ failure ’ to locate an item at the shelf .