Example sentences of "do on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's only so much any man can do on his own . ’ |
| 2 | It 's something I can do on long , boring evenings and gives the recipients a lot of pleasure . |
| 3 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 7 | This means that animals , which live by consuming other organisms , need ways of making do on very little . |
| 8 | There was nothing that Trent could do on deck . |
| 9 | On the other hand , in order to get clearance , I will have to provide an idea of costs and benefits and so anything you can do on this will be most helpful . |
| 10 | In virtually every interview in Corrigan 's study the immediate response to the question ‘ What do you do on Saturday night ? ’ was to mention the ‘ mates ’ . |
| 11 | Question : What sort of things do you do on a Saturday evening ? |
| 12 | What they could do on one of Thomas McMahon 's or Peter Greene 's creations , and what the meaning of such a new record would be , are questions that will tantalise us until they , or other runners , provide the answer . |
| 13 | That is precisely what you will do on the F-Plan . |
| 14 | And I said , ‘ Well , what did you do on When The Levee Breaks ? ’ ! |
| 15 | An example of an open question is : ‘ What did you do on Saturday afternoon ? ’ |
| 16 | This naturally leaves considerable scarring on the personality of the child , just as beatings would do on his body . |
| 17 | I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations . |
| 18 | What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? |
| 19 | But , on second thoughts , I do n't think you would do on ITMA . |
| 20 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 21 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What did you do on Saturday , Annabell ? ’ asked the teacher . |
| 23 | Nothing they could do on earth would affect this destiny . |
| 24 | Information is power ; and what parents ( and the more powerful governing bodies ) will do on the basis of their greatly enhanced knowledge of school and teacher — effectiveness remains to be seen . |
| 25 | Asked how much of their weekly shopping they would do on a Sunday if all shops were open , they answered , on average , 12% . |
| 26 | These are resorts with a long-established reputation for pleasing , where visitors find a wealth of things to see and do on land and on the water , and can be easily lured to a typically Venetian feast by the tempting aromas of the many fish restaurants . |
| 27 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 28 | Yeah , I would like to do is just mention that it 's so surprising really that er the resources used are out of all proportion to what we used to er do on it , on the other central panel . |
| 29 | What else will you do on holiday ? |
| 30 | All the archaeologist can do on the line of this new road is to hurriedly record features and salvage finds . |