Example sentences of "do [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's done that on the other one as well . |
| 2 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 3 | And of course it th it 's more often done that with the kettle of course , so that it 's it by the time you get to the end of the job you do n't want a cup of tea anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 5 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 6 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 7 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 8 | Unfortunately I lost me job then on the face , having done that to the butty , I did n't get back four yards , or whatever it was . |
| 9 | I have done that after the most careful scrutiny . |
| 10 | No Chancellor of any party has ever done that in the past and no Chancellor is ever likely to do so in the future . |
| 11 | She had often done that in the early days of their marriage , and he had found it quite charming . |
| 12 | ( I have done that in the past . ) |
| 13 | But we 've done that in the brief that we 've we 've worked on . |
| 14 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
| 15 | If he 'd done that in the last erm , he 'd have won it . |
| 16 | My local primary has , in fact , at least done that in the last year , and we have n't opted out , and secondly you will remember the article in the Guardian from thirteenth of November — thirteenth of November last year — Hull Grammar School , which was one of the first ones that went independent erm have now applied for an administration order which gives them breathing space before winding up petitions can be launched . |
| 17 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 18 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 19 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 20 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 21 | Pearson acknowledged that the new racial science could do little without the hearty co-operation of medics . |
| 22 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |
| 23 | That will do little for the Vance-Owen plan 's chances of success and little , therefore , for the vigour of the principles of international conduct . |
| 24 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 25 | Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation . |
| 26 | ‘ Would they ever do that for the workers ? |
| 27 | So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful . |
| 28 | And so I said , Yes , I would do that for the year and then I 'd get back into teaching . |
| 29 | Why wo n't he do that for the people of Lincolnshire now . |
| 30 | I wrote it down but I c I did only do that for the Christmas Fair . |