Example sentences of "do [prep] a [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 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 6 | See what they do with a long pink flannel ? |
| 7 | — Cruelty to animals takes two forms : the method of killing it and what you do with a live animal which is in your power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | do with a particular situation . |
| 12 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 14 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 15 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 16 | Just because of the nature of the work that internal auditors do on a day-to-day basis , their dual responsibilities provide more difficulty than most . |
| 17 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 18 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 19 | I think they do to a certain extent , but the teachers try and erm brush it away , they try and forget that they are soldiers ' children and try and help them mix in with the civilian children . |
| 20 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 21 | What will they do to people if this is what they do to a dumb animazl that has n't even annoyed them . |
| 22 | In fact , such images do to a large extent reflect both the climatic and the historical reality of Siberia . |
| 23 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |