Example sentences of "[noun] do that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What could a sovereign do that others could not ?
2 Ian Penman did that time and again .
3 ‘ Cause brothers do that shit to bitches all the time ’ .
4 Yeah well Richard does that Richard says it 's not bus it 's bus .
5 No work done that day .
6 The liver to do that work has to have a very very good supply of oxygen .
7 He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’
8 Whit does that RSVP mean ? ’
9 At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's .
10 i saw ‘ married with children ’ last night and boy does that al bundy character look like sgt wilko …
11 And this is the best airplane to do that kind of mission .
12 Well do , ja er , I mean er is it Marnes do that floor covering ?
13 The ESP boys would say that it was the telepathic radiations of the audience that enabled Harvey to do that dance .
14 Sometimes there is not opportunity to do that work immediately , even though one knows where to look for more information .
15 it takes a lot of water to do that mind
16 Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend .
17 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
18 Then , establish the key area in which the person doing that job must achieve results , and review them regularly to make sure your employee always has the same view of the job as you do .
19 Well , now what , now what chance does that child have of of growing up .
20 What night does that Camomile Garden start or Camomile Lawn .
21 The only one that 's gone down to yours is Bill last week for those four and a half hours doing that interceptor .
22 What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do , he asks long lost friends .
23 " People are always telling other people to do that kind of thing , " said Clelia , " it must give them a vicarious thrill .
24 And never once on a Sunday morning did that man fail to get up and cook our breakfast and polish our shoes , so that we 'd go smart and good to Sunday School .
25 At the same time , we must keep in mind the need for the security forces to do that job in a way which not only remains within the law but inspires confidence in the whole community .
26 Oh he he 's spent most of his life doing that Terry
27 At one extreme , it may mean that the world will not contain an example of any single human being doing that thing ; at the other end , it may merely mean that if a group of human beings adopt a norm requiring that behaviour , the norm will often be broken , its observance will give rise to a good deal of anxiety , those who comply without anxiety to the norm will be unusual in other respects , and so forth .
28 would know who do which architects do that sort of work .
29 And if you did n't have the expertise to know Ah well I know what 's in there , then what the hell does that person count they 've got to go and chase somebody to find out
30 I said to Leslie it 's only us , and yet it 's Germany does that bit , Holland does this bit and Denmark is doing something else .
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