Example sentences of "do [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 2 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 3 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |
| 4 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 5 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 6 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 7 | On the other , members often say that they do n't feel involved ; that committees do all the work without reference to them . |
| 8 | This is usually because the vision in one of her eyes is less good than the other and the brain has ‘ switched off ’ this eye , letting the better one do all the work . |
| 9 | I do all the work , and sometimes I even do things they do n't tell me to do . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , why should some of us do all the work ? ’ |
| 11 | THERE are times when you just want to give up , lie in bed or in the garden and let someone else do all the work . |
| 12 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 13 | Maybe , just maybe , one of the reasons why Sun Microsystems Inc 's SuperSparc Viking chip has n't gone as smooth as silk is because Sun 's lead engineers did n't listen to the young pups and do all the simulation runs they should have to begin with . |
| 14 | ‘ They do all the performing and I just sit around watching them ! ’ |
| 15 | Smart was deaf to advice , however , and in his play , which is bursting with wit and humour , ‘ He acts five parts himself and is only sorry he cant do all the rest . |
| 16 | If you think the church you are concerned about is ‘ Fund-worthy ’ , find out what the Council for the Care of Churches and the national societies feel about its quality and do all the lobbying you can . |
| 17 | I use a room at the Grand Hotel twice weekly , on a Tuesday and Thursday evening and do all the teaching myself . |
| 18 | Food processors have revolutionised some people 's lives because they take all the effort out of preparing food , as they do all the chopping , slicing , grating , blending , whisking , and kneading incredibly fast . |
| 19 | The jaw bones , who do all the talking but little else ! |
| 20 | ( Mager I 962 47 ) In fact the definition of objectives and the evaluation of progress is something which as teachers we do all the tune ; it simply happens to be true that many of us do it very amateurishly and very half-heartedly , indeed we do it badly . |
| 21 | " I do all the housework and the cooking , my mam and dad both work , " said an unemployed teenager in Coventry . |
| 22 | Sometimes humans put out bowls of milk for us and we do all the housework for them . |
| 23 | Why do all the court statements have " Criminal Justice Act 1967 sections 2 and 9 " printed on them ? " |
| 24 | Why do all the world 's bank depositors and borrowers not establish and use euro-markets in their own currencies ? |
| 25 | ‘ We felt that by cutting out the broker to reduce the cost , building up a team of very friendly tele-sales and tele-service operators to talk to customers and explain and do all the form filling for them , they would eventually sign . |
| 26 | So do all the lemon recipes which I have chosen for this article . |
| 27 | That is , do all the muscle cells descend from just one or two ancestral muscle cells ? |
| 28 | Why do only a minority of those with IBS seek medical attention ? |
| 29 | Although large tree-nesting birds — wood pigeons , rooks , storks or eagles — do only the minimum to soften the uneven surface of their platform nests , many smaller birds with delicate eggs fashion a cup in the centre of the nest which they line with softer material . |
| 30 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |