Example sentences of "do [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ how doth the little busy bee ,
2 The next morning , a Sunday , he agreed to Dick 's suggestion to see a West German doctor , had tests done the following Wednesday and was referred to Zurich for an operation a week later .
3 As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) .
4 The pattern was similar last summer , with the premieres of David Blake 's The Plumber 's Gift at the Coliseum and John Casken 's Golem at the Almeida , while the London International Opera Festival brought Udo Zimmermann 's Die Weisse Rose , another work to have done the European rounds in triumph before landing here .
5 Sometimes I 've done the odd job for la parallèle , ’ he said simply , as though it explained everything .
6 Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably .
7 It can not have done the YF-23 any good that it was unable to kick the AMRAAMs out of its weapons bay on demand .
8 Well I should have done the financial
9 I should have done the Financial Times .
10 What , I 've already done the second page
11 I 've done the second lesson of it
12 I 've done the second question
13 That policy seems to have done the Norwegian Red , some of which are black , no harm in other respects .
14 But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming .
15 Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president .
16 She said , ‘ You know , they say you 've done the dirty on us in the Council . ’
17 Goes back to the fisherman and they just er done the dirty on
18 I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were .
19 And well done the major prize-winner , Mr. S. Davies of John Broom & Co. , a keen rugby supporter who is now set to have a rather special honeymoon following his wedding next month — off with his bride to New Zealand !
20 erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management .
21 So far , she 'd done the absolute minimum necessary to allow herself to camp in the house overnight .
22 ‘ You 've done the easy bit , Alan , ’ he joked , sipping orange juice .
23 in my eyes like , was more professional than the one that had done the new one !
24 If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ?
25 He answered Andrus , as he had done the other Copts , with assurances and counsels of patience ; and with a touch of iron .
26 But I 've done the other two .
27 They were doing it down the road here done the other week .
28 You can see the one that Scott done the other day .
29 Same as labour was done the other day .
30 So use the other half of the diagram , and then when you 've done the other half , the whole thing is a two-fold rotation about the centre of C.
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