Example sentences of "do [pron] of " in BNC.

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1 It will do nothing of the kind .
2 ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort .
3 'I 'll do nothing of the sort , Aunt Nessy , ’ the young parson said now .
4 ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort , ’ said her uncle firmly .
5 Sinclair also urged Chamberlain to beware of a pact with Russia , insisting that the Red Army ‘ could do nothing of real value ’ .
6 But Joe knew that Ashdown would do nothing of the kind .
7 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
8 As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind .
9 It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before .
10 You say you have bestowed your gift of the secret of life on mankind , but in fact you have done nothing of the sort .
11 He finds it far more challenging than shooting either grouse or pheasant , which he has also done plenty of .
12 I 've always done plenty of bowling in the nets , but it 's nice to know that people still rate you . ’
13 I done plenty of damage .
14 Well we can do plenty of that .
15 But he had done none of these things Instead he had kept his temper , and not even threatened to raise his hand .
16 The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective .
17 Well , she would do none of that standing here in the street , she told herself firmly .
18 Did n't do none of your Oh-my-gawd theayter till after the war — second big job , you know .
19 But course now the present day they do n't do none of that , they drive the crane and only the crane , they do n't even clean the crane .
20 I mean er scrap iron , I mean I 've done that erm where we 've loaded scrap iron ships but they do n't do none of that now and when you load scrap iron put so much in on the floor and then dockers would pull it apart and then there 'd then , mean you got ta go and pull a lot of that scrap iron out , load that off , well that the stevedore would say .
21 I can do none of these .
22 A day 's work would n't do none of 'em any ‘ arm . ’
23 Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that
24 And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this !
25 ‘ I assumed you 'd do something of the sort .
26 But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book .
27 Could I do something of that kind ? ’
28 And I do not see why it should be different if he has to show that he has done something of value to the seller .
29 If the Community can take constructive and urgent action , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) said , to bring the Uruguay round of the GATT negotiations to a successful conclusion , it will have done something of value for its members and the global economy generally .
30 He 'd paid countless prostitutes to satisfy his craving , but never had a woman done it of her own will , until Jacqui .
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