Example sentences of "thing do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Banks set out to break your Association , What they did was wrong and some of the things done since then are wrong ’ , said Mr. Peter Cassells , General Secretary to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions addressing the Biennial Delegate Conference of the IBOA at the Burlington Hotel on Saturday 24th April 1993 . |
| 2 | ‘ They 've got to be able to talk to workmen , and get things done during pollutions — find things out . |
| 3 | They were good natured and got things done without a fuss , usually on a grand scale . |
| 4 | Because it keeps happening , boys and girls in their summer holiday keep get getting taken away by people they do n't know and nasty things done to them . |
| 5 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 6 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 7 | They 've never comed back , an' 't is said they went to parts where folks was properly thankful for things done for yum . |
| 8 | But Mum 's used to having things done for her , you see . |
| 9 | It is the charity that really gets things done for birds the countryside — action for birds , on your behalf . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll be busy tomorrow and besides , I like things done with plenty of time to spare . ’ |
| 11 | We approached it with a will to get things done with socialist thinking . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's policy now to get these things done with all dispatch . |
| 13 | But they made machines that did lace curtains , lace er is er a variant now , and er probably a thing of the past , but there was amazing things done on a lace machine . |
| 14 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 15 | We 're entitled now you know to have all sorts of things done at the doctors , coming up to the right age to be hav to be done er |
| 16 | But they seem to get things done at Edingley at site meetings . |
| 17 | In Session 1969–70 the Select Committee on Privileges recommended that it should cover : ( a ) all things done or written in each House or in Committee for the purpose of business being transacted ; ( b ) all things done between members and officers , between members , and between members and ministers for the purpose of enabling any of these to carry out their functions . |
| 18 | The sharpening of management skills and getting things done through people is the focus of the 5 x 2 day modules which run from May to December each year . |
| 19 | The majority of people get things done through the greed and the lust and therefore , also religion . |
| 20 | She wept again , talking through her snuffles of things done behind her back , of stabbings . |
| 21 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 22 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 23 | As very small children , too , we had lots of time to get things done in the same pattern . |
| 24 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 25 | The reason I 'm standing up here cos your not get things done in this town I 'm sorry it is the only way of saying something . |
| 26 | ‘ Any duty imposed on any person by any of the preceding provisions of this Article shall extend only to things done in the course of a trade , business or other undertaking carried on by him ( whether for profit or not ) and to matters within his control . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There were often terrible panics about getting things done in time , ’ Jane recalled , ‘ but Laura would never let things fuss you . |
| 28 | But we got , we got the things done in that respect . |
| 29 | ‘ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ’ the minister warned them ; ‘ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The whole point of being a Minister is you can get things done in Whitehall . |