Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mind , what I do as a medical sociologist is just as scientific . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe it is quite hard , the work that you do as a Strict Regime prisoner . |
| 3 | For example , Standard English does not distinguish between do as a main verb and as an auxiliary verb : He did it , did he ? |
| 4 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 5 | As a player , you 're only concerned about what you do as an individual , but as a manager you 're concerned for the whole team , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Animals learn to do many things that they never do as an unconditioned response to any stimulus . |
| 7 | So what does the publishing company do for the non-performing songwriter ? |
| 8 | What , therefore , might a ‘ good ’ book do for the right reader at the right time ? |
| 9 | What do you think existing kinds of drama training do for the new actor ? |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 11 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 12 | We know more about the poor , who have to fill in forms of all kinds in order to receive benefits , than we do about the rich , who have to declare their tax position only to the taxman , in strict confidence . |
| 13 | We need to know far more than we currently do about the organised abuse of children — and we need to find out from survivors , both child and adult . |
| 14 | The precedent suggests a reference to persons under the Tenant 's control in order to exclude mere callers , but where the clause refers to servants of the tenant ( which some precedents do despite the archaic nature of the expression ) it may be as well to qualify this with the words in the course of employment in case it is claimed that a servant will , by the nature of the expression , always be under the tenant 's control . |
| 15 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 16 | See what they do with a long pink flannel ? |
| 17 | — Cruelty to animals takes two forms : the method of killing it and what you do with a live animal which is in your power . |
| 18 | I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out . |
| 19 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 20 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |
| 21 | do with a particular situation . |
| 22 | They do with every other side — somehow methinks scum will avoid that on the whole . |
| 23 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 24 | I do n't care what you do with the other bods but see that the civilian gets some attention , will you ? |
| 25 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 26 | GREY November or no , Festival fever is here again , with its prospects for of makin' whoopee and temperatures rising as they always do with the actual Festival opening . |
| 27 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 28 | But is n't that exactly what these learned scholars do in every didactic essay that accompanies any CD of classical music ? |
| 29 | Where things sometimes go wrong , as they do in every large organisation , the new adjudicator will be there to review complaints and offer an impartial view . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |