Example sentences of "do [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 2 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 3 | This may be done using a frequency distribution from a domain corpus . |
| 4 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 5 | An oesophagogram done using a water soluble contrast ( Gastroconray ) showed a minor leak from the oesophagus . |
| 6 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |
| 7 | The micropipettes are easy to pull by hand using 1.2 mm tubing ( Section 5.3.6 ) although an electrode puller can be used and the squaring and polishing is done using a microforge . |
| 8 | The test was done using a 16-mile loop of glass fibre , lasers , amplifiers and filters to prove that solitons can provide the key to future ultra-high capacity transmission . |
| 9 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 10 | The present study was done to establish a dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells by giving exogenous gastrin in graded doses . |
| 11 | In London , some of the stories about what pianists would do to secure a tour , a recording contract , a broadcast , had left Mina shattered . |
| 12 | ‘ And what have you done to deserve a tip ? |
| 13 | Her right hand tingled to smack his arrogant face , but she remembered her drama coach 's advice , consciously releasing her tension in a long , draining breath ; then she said as clearly and cuttingly as she could , ‘ Whatever has Peter done to deserve a rat like you for a brother ? |
| 14 | Khrushchev 's dry comment on the Soviet lack of ‘ overkill ’ was : ‘ What good does it do to annihilate a country twice ? |
| 15 | That 's why today , even though he won a world title without throwing a punch , he walks tall , convinced everything possible was done to secure a deal with Riddick Bowe . |
| 16 | Q. What could the politicians do to create a climate in which you can prosper still further ? |
| 17 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 18 | Stephen refers to a crime being excusable if the defendant can show as one of the requisites that what was done was done to avoid a consequence which could not otherwise have been avoided , and which , if not done , would have inflicted harm on him or on others he was bound to protect . |
| 19 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 20 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 21 | It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome . |
| 22 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 23 | This was done to allow a comparison of risk-related information to other information in order to test the assumption that the recognition results relied on attention focusing causing specific memory enhancements for risk-related information . |
| 24 | From the drafter 's point of view there is clearly nothing that can be done to save a clause rendered ineffective by the Act ; however , where a clause is subject to a test of reasonableness ( which will be more common in relation to clauses included in standard terms ) the drafter should try to ensure that the clause can satisfy the test . |
| 25 | Bettleheim in The Uses of Enchantment provides an apt summary of what a story must do to hold a child 's interest and ‘ enrich his ( sic ) life ’ . |
| 26 | This is the best that can be done to depopulate a matrix below its diagonal ; if one could remove infradiagonal elements as well , there would be no problem in finding eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's amazing what a sensible diet and some good workouts in the company gym can do to get a woman into shape . ’ |
| 28 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 29 | Auto Express did not mince its words : ‘ It 's difficult to see how much more Ford could have done to improve a car that was already very good . ’ |
| 30 | Having said all that , there is usually something you can do to redeem a place . |