Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 2 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 3 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 4 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 5 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 6 | I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks . |
| 7 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |
| 8 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 9 | There is much to be done over the next few months to achieve implementation in 1994/5 . |
| 10 | ‘ Some serious talking will need to be done over the next few weeks . |
| 11 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 12 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 13 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 14 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
| 15 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 16 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 17 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 19 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 20 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 21 | spend my time doing over the past few years . |
| 22 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 23 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 25 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |