Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] do [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 2 | I want to do right by the kid , give them a good home . |
| 3 | Since I 've done most of the really sexy west-coast mountains it 's time to start exploring the interior of the Cairngorm range , especially now I 've overcome my abhorrence of the ski-77tows and scone consumers . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've done most of the things you are suggesting . |
| 5 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 6 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 7 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 8 | And , after all , would you have done so in the same situation ? |
| 9 | You 've done well by the lady , and she has done well by you . |
| 10 | Yeah but you 've done all round the kitchen bit have n't you ? |
| 11 | At the other extreme , Belinda attached herself with limpet-like tenacity , as Rachel remembered she had done previously in the swimming-pool , doggedly refusing to be distracted by any other diversion , engrossed only in Rachel 's clothes , her hair and the colour of her lipstick . |
| 12 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 13 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 14 | She knew it would wound his dignity that he had been forced to skulk abroad while she had saved the firm — never mind that she had done so in the most unbusinesslike and outrageous manner . |
| 15 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 16 | She continued to do so throughout the evening , serving him — he was still the only guest — with promptness and civility , being neither short nor teasingly indifferent , preoccupied , it seemed to Hope , and puzzlingly outside his grasp . |
| 17 | Mum , what do we have to do out in the garden ? |
| 18 | Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities . |
| 19 | ‘ Trading has been difficult , but we have done well through-out the recession ’ , he said . |
| 20 | She writes that in August 1941 , before the Final Solution orders were given , Goebbels complained to Hitler that ‘ Antonescu proceeds in these matters in a far more radical fashion than we have done up to the present . ’ |
| 21 | With a simple statement we have done away with the whole concept of deafness itself . |
| 22 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 23 | As indicated by the work commissioned by the Department of Health , few practitioners currently make that distinction , nor are they encouraged to do so by the assessment procedures they are required to operate ( DoH , 1991d , p. 47 ) . |
| 24 | Yeah cos since they 've done away with the log book . |
| 25 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 26 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 27 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 28 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 29 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 30 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |