Example sentences of "do [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 2 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 3 | Ten years younger than Rawalpindi , she carried nine 11-inch and 12 5.9-inch guns and could do 32 knots . |
| 4 | Those 64-bit Rios 2 multi-chips IBM Corp is planning on using in boxes due by the end of the year from its new Power Parallel Systems unit ( UX No 422 ) reportedly incorporate more instruction- set parallelism than Rios 1 does , will do eight operations per instruction cycle , will have a larger cache and additional buses . |
| 5 | Well , no one person could do 850 interviews in five years . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 8 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |
| 9 | Repeat this until you have done 12 rows of stocking stitch in pink ( around 4cms ) . |
| 10 | Counting was done 2 weeks after completion of studies to avoid interference from urine 1 1 1 In . |
| 11 | You see , cos they do n't say that , and anyone else who does n't , who does less than thirty five thousand pounds worth of , if Mrs down the street said , I could n't do forty pound , then they do n't have to pay that . |
| 12 | Can you do 12 Star Jumps and hold a conversation afterwards — without puffing and panting ! |
| 13 | North wanted them taken on ‘ his ship ’ , the Erria , a Danish freighter , for which several starring roles were intended , but the DEA men were scathing : the Erria was ‘ a filthy boat , filthy … a potato boat ’ , and ‘ an old tub that could n't do 10 knots ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only done thirteen hours , ’ he replied . |
| 15 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 16 | Joseph Joe did you do thirteen , Joe did you do thirteen C ? |
| 17 | Did I do thirteen C on which one ? |
| 18 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 19 | It 's 50 CC engine will do 100 miles per gallon , so not bad from an environmental , as well as economical point of view . |
| 20 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 21 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 22 | ‘ It 's done six Auto shows , and 26 stops on Iacocca 's '90s tour and its never failed once , ’ said its minder . |
| 23 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 24 | Well cos I 've done six tapes up until Monday |
| 25 | Sixty you could do six times six two sixes . |
| 26 | From our research we could do six shows . |
| 27 | Women , argued Mrs Anne Smith of West Bridgford , Nottingham , can do six jobs in five minutes of walking in the house with their coats still on . |
| 28 | You 'll probably do six months in the news room first , then six months in the subs , then maybe six months in the commercial room … ’ |
| 29 | The paper went on to consider the question of ‘ The Grading of Murders ’ , traversing the same ground as a Royal Commission would do six years later , and reaching the same negative conclusions , except that Ede rejected the idea of giving the jury any discretion : |
| 30 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |