Example sentences of "do some [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard .
2 Can I come and do some of the work there .
3 She can do some of the cooking and all the mending .
4 Dave Thomas , one of the course 's original designers and the man who is responsible for making the alterations , said : ‘ It is very exciting when you can go back and do some of the things you would liked to have done originally .
5 I have a break in the middle of the day because I do n't do some of the lessons like music , PE and games .
6 Informix says it 'll do some of the work itself , but will go to partners and other developers for the body of it .
7 And erm somebody like Mike of Chris is perfectly capable of get their bits of paper to check to tick off things like that but Wendy will have to check it and put it you know they could do some of the legwork but not yet .
8 No reason why I should n't do some of the simple work . ’
9 well he knew we did n't mean to sell it better do some of the ship tomorrow , where 's the , look you had one of the masts out , where is it ?
10 Logan had done some of the designs for the old Biba department store in Kensington High Street and , when it closed down , he took all his work back to his flat .
11 It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects .
12 They 've never been patients of mine , though , as I say , I have done some of the servants and villagers .
13 We have already done some of the groundwork for the new tax .
14 But hell , why was she taking all the blame and why was she letting him punish her when he could easily have done some of the running himself ?
15 ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’
16 She used to do some of the drawings in the Radio Times many years ago before she retired .
17 ‘ But touring with ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ it would be great to do some of the show on my own and some with a band .
18 ‘ I thought I would be allowed to do some of the stunts but the insurance company cut me out . ’
19 Likewise , you may have to pay other people to do some of the jobs , such as the decorating , that you previously managed yourself .
20 When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills .
21 I just told her that it might be interesting for me to get to know something of France , after all I was still young for University Entrance and could probably arrange to do some of the work here .
22 Then I had to do some of the King 's business , but , because of my damaged finger , I did not have to write my name on any papers .
23 But I was supposed to do some of the clerical work .
24 She therefore decided at the start of the second year to take in a partner who would put in an additional £5,000 into the business and would be able to do some of the selling and other tasks after Susan had trained him .
25 In effect , we are doing some of the work unpaid , with a view to getting more of the benefits when the product sells . ’
26 But if there is someone else waiting with you , and you feel shy doing some of the more noticeable ones , disappear to the cloakroom for a few minutes and do them there .
27 ‘ You 're not bound to hurt yourself doing some of the risky exercises we found , especially if you are already fit , but there are safer ways to get the same effect . ’
28 Evaluating the options will involve you in doing some of the calculations that you would normally expect to find done for you in a respectable feasibility study .
29 One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified .
30 My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces .
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