Example sentences of "do [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 2 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 3 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 4 | Most of this work has been done using a standard binocular light microscope with variable ×8 to ×40 magnification , but extensive use has also been made of the scanning electron microscope . |
| 5 | When it is necessary to print a copy of a document , this is done using a standard laser printer of the type already found in many offices . |
| 6 | The test was done using a 16-mile loop of glass fibre , lasers , amplifiers and filters to prove that solitons can provide the key to future ultra-high capacity transmission . |
| 7 | This may be done using a frequency distribution from a domain corpus . |
| 8 | The micropipettes are easy to pull by hand using 1.2 mm tubing ( Section 5.3.6 ) although an electrode puller can be used and the squaring and polishing is done using a microforge . |
| 9 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 10 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 11 | Drawings of each species were done using a Wild M-5 stereomicroscope with drawing tube . |
| 12 | This means that resonant photoionization offers no particular advantages and photoelectron spectroscopy is best done using a monochromatic light source with more than sufficient energy to ionize the electrons of interest . |
| 13 | The estimation of call values can now be done using a hand-held calculator . |
| 14 | In nine patients with chronic diarrhoea and severe failure to thrive a proximal small intestinal biopsy was done using a pediatric twin port biopsy capsule after obtaining informed consent . |
| 15 | Extraction of PAF from cells was done using a previously described method with some modifications . |
| 16 | An oesophagogram done using a water soluble contrast ( Gastroconray ) showed a minor leak from the oesophagus . |
| 17 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |
| 18 | This can be done using a FOR … |
| 19 | Unfortunately , this needs 2 command lines and must be done using a CLI command file . |
| 20 | What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’ |
| 21 | Concerning the question of enhancing the role of the institutions of the Community , the Foreign Secretary made the point that work was being done to establish a more active role for national parliaments in considering Community legislation in line with the strong tradition of the Westminster and Danish parliaments . |
| 22 | The present study was done to establish a dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells by giving exogenous gastrin in graded doses . |
| 23 | In London , some of the stories about what pianists would do to secure a tour , a recording contract , a broadcast , had left Mina shattered . |
| 24 | ‘ And what have you done to deserve a tip ? |
| 25 | Her right hand tingled to smack his arrogant face , but she remembered her drama coach 's advice , consciously releasing her tension in a long , draining breath ; then she said as clearly and cuttingly as she could , ‘ Whatever has Peter done to deserve a rat like you for a brother ? |
| 26 | Khrushchev 's dry comment on the Soviet lack of ‘ overkill ’ was : ‘ What good does it do to annihilate a country twice ? |
| 27 | All that the plaintiff need do to obtain a restraining order is to show a prima facie , arguable case , and that the public interest in protecting the confidence is not , on the " balance of convenience " test , outweighed by some urgent public interest in publication . |
| 28 | That 's why today , even though he won a world title without throwing a punch , he walks tall , convinced everything possible was done to secure a deal with Riddick Bowe . |
| 29 | Q. What could the politicians do to create a climate in which you can prosper still further ? |
| 30 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |