Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] do [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 2 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 3 | Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’ |
| 4 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 5 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 6 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 7 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 8 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) If any constable reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under the foregoing provisions of this section , he may if requested to do so by the chairman of the meeting require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and , if that person refuses or fails to so declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection . ’ |
| 10 | She did it for her father and liked to do so in the one part of the house that was totally his . |
| 11 | Police did not restore order until commanded to do so in the small hours of Aug. 27 by President Zhelyu Zhelev ( who had rushed back to Sofia from Varna , on the opposite side of the country ) . |
| 12 | It has provided excellent service in the past , and wishes to do so in the future . |
| 13 | Satan , however , will not recognise his defeat until forced to do so by the servants of Christ . |
| 14 | For both reasons , he resisted attempts to reinsert Spain fully into the international capitalist system until forced to do so by the prospect of a return to wartime rationing . |
| 15 | Both defendants maintained to police that the baby suffered fits and had done so during the weekend he died . |
| 16 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 17 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 18 | She marched straight into Tony Richardson 's office in her summer dress and sandals , sorted out Walter 's money to her satisfaction , and continued to do so for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones , nine Merchant-Ivory films and more recently Ballad of the Sad Café , from Carson McCullers 's poignant novel . |
| 19 | Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 21 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 22 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 23 | ‘ We won the World Cup under the old laws and have done OK during the change . |
| 24 | In order to succeed against paper owners who seek possession , squatters must prove that , for at least twelve years , they have actually possessed the land , and have done so with the intention to possess it ( animus possidendi ) and adversely . |
| 25 | Individual users of software will not be permitted to copy or distribute copies of any software product or its documentation unless permitted to do so under the terms of the licence . |
| 26 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
| 27 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 28 | He was not in the habit of examining patients ' heads for vermin unless asked to do so by the superintendent-nurse , in which case he had always directed that they be disinfested . |
| 29 | For example , the chairman of Welsh Water stated recently that , in spite of assurances from the Drinking Water Inspectorate concerning the safety of fluoridation plant designed according to the Department of Environment 's code of practice , his company would not continue fluoridation on Anglesey or extend fluoridation into the rest of Wales unless required to do so by the secretary of state . |
| 30 | And men shall not go into the women 's ward , nor the women into the men 's ward unless required to do so by the house surgeon or matron . ’ |