Example sentences of "do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't done a reconciliation yet . |
| 2 | Because somewhere , you 've , you 've done a division by zero . |
| 3 | She 's done a poo poo . |
| 4 | Now er when we 'd done a waggon er it was n't just er right , that 's alright , er we had a railway examiner come along and er he 'd go round it and if there was anything as he was was n't satisfied with , or any other further repairs , he he 'd stop that waggon from going out , and er of course we had to go r go back and do it . |
| 5 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 6 | I 've done a swap of shifts with Terry Baines . |
| 7 | This can be done a day ahead . |
| 8 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 9 | It is obvious that Smith 's assessment is coloured by his self-revealing remark that ‘ Coleman had never done a day 's soldiering in his life , and for that reason alone was incapable of leading and directing ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Billy Sullivan ai n't done a day 's work since 'e got out o' the army . |
| 11 | By the time he is up in the morning , I have already done a day 's work … |
| 12 | ‘ I bet you 've done a day 's work already . |
| 13 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 14 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 15 | in this place who have got up and done a day 's work before they 've come here ! |
| 16 | So he 's done a kind of conjuring trick here . |
| 17 | Oh I could n't have done a quarter of it . |
| 18 | Oh , I could n't have done a quarter of it . |
| 19 | I think I 've done a quarter of it |
| 20 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 21 | Tell you what I did watch one night in the week on Sky was erm they 've er they 've done a feature on erm all these karate actors , you know , the best ones |
| 22 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 23 | I knew so many rotters before him , I could have done a degree in them . |
| 24 | She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’ |
| 25 | Once she 's done a course in massage and has her certificate she can work here . |
| 26 | That non-enrollers were more likely than migrants to say that they had n't done a course because they needed other qualifications could imply ignorance of entry requirements . |
| 27 | Such an approach will be familiar to anyone who has ever done a course in macroeconomics . |
| 28 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 29 | Oh aye , she 's er , she 's done a , she 's done a course and hearing aid she 's done a course and a |
| 30 | Oh aye , she 's er , she 's done a , she 's done a course and hearing aid she 's done a course and a |