Example sentences of "do most [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 2 | A pocket calculator will do most of the work . |
| 3 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 4 | Let the candidate do most of the talking . |
| 5 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 6 | You can do most of the job yourself with that old favourite , the Wet Test , a walk across the floor with damp feet . |
| 7 | The former would do most of the talking ; the latter said little . |
| 8 | Their organisation ( see Appendix 2 ) was flexible so that any man could do most of the jobs . |
| 9 | Fraser and Ramsay had agreed that , since it was all the latter 's idea and the former was a man of action rather than words , Ramsay should do most of the talking . |
| 10 | Think of these as the troops who will do most of the real fighting . |
| 11 | As respectively experienced d-i-yers ( we had already installed new window frames , central heating and patio windows , etc ) , we felt confident we could do most of the jobs , except the brickwork . |
| 12 | If you can do maths you can probably do most of the rest |
| 13 | And I actually believe that for your programme because you 've done most of the work , believe it or not , the problem is you have n't written everything down . |
| 14 | I do n't want to say too much about the tower because I 'll leave that to two , two chaps who done most of the work , Ron and Colin . |
| 15 | You 've done most of the buttons . |
| 16 | I do the background briefing but the clients have to do most of the work , and so I always tell them . ’ |
| 17 | I am expected to do most of the work including taking care of him ( the mentally retarded boy ) which is very hard with all my school-work too . |
| 18 | Encourage the interviewee to do most of the talking . |
| 19 | allow the candidate to do most of the talking , |
| 20 | Your best bet is to give the person who is going to do most of the riding top priority ; if a five foot five woman and her six foot husband want a horse between them so that she can compete and he can hack , they should find that a 16hh middleweight that is deep through the girth will suit them both . |
| 21 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |
| 22 | Other firms use researchers to do most of the contacting or cold-calling . |
| 23 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 24 | Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework . |
| 25 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 26 | As the man who has to do most of the negotiating on single market measures , I know that there is still a long way to go . |
| 27 | It 's quicker to do most of the preparations myself though . ’ |
| 28 | The few Catholic schools in the area frequently draw on the services offered by Easton 's Community Relations Branch , as do most of the Protestant secondary schools . |
| 29 | Both still have close ties to Poland 's old Communist Party , as do most of the other top 100 . |
| 30 | For a long time these two between them do most of the Equity work , though the Court of Exchequer has also developed an Equity jurisdiction , an ‘ Equity side ’ , which , however , is handed over to Chancery in 1842 : it is now administered by the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court . |