Example sentences of "do [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 2 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 3 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 4 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 5 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 6 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 7 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 8 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |
| 9 | All you need to do is cross the ridge separating the two villages and continue on to Day 11 . |
| 10 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 11 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 12 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 13 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 14 | So , on the seventh floor the floor tiles are next and the next job they 're doing is on the eighth which is more floor tiling . |
| 15 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 16 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 17 | Well what I do is like put it on a tray , right what we do is in the night right and if you 'd stayed up late I 'd put cheese |
| 18 | Everything we did was of the very lightest weight however heavy the humour . |
| 19 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 20 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 21 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 22 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 23 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 24 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |
| 25 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 26 | The do was at the home of one of the female directors of the firm . |