Example sentences of "[noun] do [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no organized campaigning throughout that year , and Sir Thomas Gray , who took a dim view of the conduct of the war , complained that Edward did nothing at Antwerp except ‘ jousting and leading a jolly life ’ . |
| 2 | Nearly half the population does it at least once . |
| 3 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 4 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 5 | The front bed needles are all knitting , but the back bed needles do nothing at all . |
| 6 | Inspector did you at the time , know of Lawrence ? |
| 7 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 8 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 9 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 10 | Mm I think I but Sarah did it at work , she did it sort of plaited it from here round |
| 11 | SHABBA DOES IT AT LAST |
| 12 | it 's , I ca n't see any other way to do it at the moment , I mean probably when I |
| 13 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 14 | company doing it at the Haymarket ! |
| 15 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 16 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |