Example sentences of "do over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 damage it must do over the country
2 He says , that was done over the phone !
3 Did you actually see either er car or card ? or was it all done over the telephone with somebody else looking at the card ?
4 So we need to identify to what extent the o the quotes problem erm is cau is , is skewing the figures primarily to be able to get a forecast view of , okay what 's the overtime likely to do over the year ?
5 As they walked along , weaving through the little groups of fighting or jesting juniors , the three boys were discussing what they were to do over the weekend .
6 you have n't got any work to do over the holiday have you ?
7 I do n't know why , good God what the hell 's he doing over the road ?
8 Whatever you 're doing over the weekend of 28th/29th November , forget it , your time could be better spent …
9 I must just say to yo , you 're dying to ask , like what he 's doing over the corner ?
10 The rivers ' safety record is reckoned to be quite good and the authority wants tyo ensure that this wweeekend people don'ty do over the top in case they wind up going under .
11 Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in .
12 There were things that we had no more control over yet than the grass did over the developer who chose to plough it all under and build a factory on top .
13 As a rule we had do tell everybody what we did over the weekend which was called our ‘ news ’ and we usually did this first thing on a Monday .
14 More importantly , if you were doing the exercise Mr did over the weekend , how would you score the sector ?
15 Mr Salmond undoubtedly has a point in arguing , as he did over the weekend , that any demonstrable gain which may ultimately emerge from the deal with Mr Lang was achieved without serious risk of saving the Government from a Commons defeat .
16 I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality .
17 The rise in the share of transfers ( pensions , dole , etc. ) also probably took the form ( as it did over the period as a whole ; see chapter 9 ) of an extension of coverage of schemes rather than of a growth in real value in excess of productivity .
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