Example sentences of "do a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't even do a simple peroxidase test now without fumbling . |
| 2 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 3 | Brewer , in fact , may do a double-Whetton act in the coming season . |
| 4 | I am employing you because I believe you will do a first-class job . |
| 5 | The in-service kind of erm activity is of course reflected in our , many of our courses , not merely in short courses , but in the fact that we run erm Masters courses , erm M As in Education of several kinds , and students in those courses are mainly teachers who have been released for a whole year to come and do a full-time course . |
| 6 | ADRIAN ‘ FATAL Attraction ’ Lyne is considering a James Dearden-scripted remake of Nabokov 's pre-teen-temptress tragedy Lolita , previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick , Lyne 's recent Jacob 's Ladder suggesting he may do a decent job . |
| 7 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 8 | That they are all up to date and er I 'll just do a final check up after the meeting . |
| 9 | You can either do it per pound or you can do a total amount in the end |
| 10 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 11 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 12 | You do n't imagine a hired gun would do a sloppy job like that do you ? ’ |
| 13 | In some cases , however , estate agents will do a certain amount of advertising free of charge . |
| 14 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 15 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 16 | First , every Act of Parliament , in effect , says that if a certain state of facts exists the tribunal may do a certain thing ; those facts are always for the relative decision of the tribunal . |
| 17 | So erm if you ask them why they do n't do a certain thing you get a very very elaborate argument about it , which is often very difficult to er to er criticize or , or , or attack . |
| 18 | It 's , I mean , Freud we know , did do a certain analysis . |
| 19 | He 'd do a standard trunk escape , but come on as a clown to test the chains . |
| 20 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate . |
| 21 | If we do n't get approval to increase the salary by the thirty first of January so I can have the two people I want can I appoint this lady and bring her on board cos I know she 'll do a reasonable job in a certain area ? |
| 22 | But I could not play at Wolves without knowing I could do a reasonable job . ’ |
| 23 | Controlling risk is still the first priority and they can do a substantial amount themselves . |
| 24 | ( You can do a similar exercise with similarly startling results on the customer service side by , as they put it , ‘ stapling yourself to a purchase order ’ and watching how many hands it passes through ) . |
| 25 | You did n't do a similar assignment for the inner route north ? |
| 26 | No , but we can do a similar thing . |
| 27 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 28 | What 's the er how do you do a global format ? |
| 29 | I mean anybody who 'd do a stupid song like fookin' , er … what 's the one we did with Karl Denver called ? |
| 30 | we could do a separate exercise then could n't we ? |