Example sentences of "the [noun sg] do all " in BNC.
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1 | He claims he did the stunts while the stuntman did all his acting scenes , but this of course is just his little joke . |
2 | Been out in the field done all the erm and worked my way up to it you see . |
3 | Ousley 's quite happy with the way it has all panned out ‘ because MIPS did n't have the wherewithal to do all it said it could . |
4 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
5 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
6 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
7 | Christian communicators representing 14 African countries have issued a strong and uncompromising call to governments and churches throughout the continent to do all in their power to uphold human rights , including the freedom of information and expression . |
8 | another one he had during his work and he says straight away look I was put to work splitting wood , do you see that in the , paragraph on the right hand side , the next day I was told to report to the dairy barns to help milk cows , then he worked in the garden , he also took care of the bees , harvested honey for the family , then in nineteen fifty three I was transferred to the cheese making farm , now here 's a spiritual brother thinking he 's going into the battle to do all sorts of spiritual things , and yet these were his assignments , there 's a lesson here for you and I . |
9 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
10 | This will mean that an initial medical will cost not £50 but £100 , depending on where you go , who you see and who has the equipment to do all the tests . |
11 | When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police . |
12 | … it will be the duty of those who have resisted militarism during the war to do all we can to stem the tide of militarism in the Labour movement . |
13 | MI6 accepted his decision with ill-grace and throughout the rest of the war did all it could to hinder the work of SOE . |
14 | They 've been running up and down the place doing all the good play . |
15 | The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants , using his great wealth to bribe informers . |
16 | If the organisation did all customer liaison work from head office it might need fewer managerial staff . |
17 | There do n't seem to be enough hours in the day to do all the things you have to do , quite apart from your laundry ! |
18 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |
19 | At one time the ladies of the area did all the embroidery themselves . |
20 | Although I was helping out Miss Louise I had to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do all the chores before school . |
21 | ‘ Why 's the woman doing all the talking ? ’ |
22 | No I ca n't clean the floors Saturday , up and I think she 's scrubbing the floor with the brush done all the muscle . |
23 | That being so , teachers like me have the duty to do all we can to prod a child to the limit of that potential , but as we do n't really know what that potential is , and no IQ test can tell us , we are obliged to keep prodding . |
24 | they have n't got the man-power to do all this paperwork . |
25 | Miss Marple and dear old Sherlock have given way to something more insistently cerebral — it 's a world where letting the brain do all the legwork makes far more sense . |
26 | Between the tournaments and all that smiling at the cameras , one wondered how they found the time and the energy to do all those things that the popular press said they did . |
27 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |