Example sentences of "do [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her mother had done that and two people had suffered for it . |
| 32 | Only her father had done that and he had obviously welcomed Alain Lemarchand just as he had rejected her . |
| 33 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 34 | But only , as the last time she had done that and had kissed the child , to be told , ‘ You have a nice mouth , Mammy ; Daddy 's mouth is wet . ’ |
| 35 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 36 | How to make a fenestral and we 've just done that and it works . |
| 37 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 38 | There 's always the temptation to think you should n't have done that and try to go back again . |
| 39 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 40 | Locally we done that and it was n't until we we went nationally under national agreement we lost the wayside . |
| 41 | I just done that and I got two hundred . |
| 42 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 43 | They have now done that and they will be making a report , I hope , fairly shortly , either to us or or both . |
| 44 | He had done little except reiterate his protests against Philip 's invasion of his dominions . |
| 45 | Several sessions were to be led by hospital nursing and other professional staff who had done little or no formal teaching before but who showed an interest in the project . |
| 46 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 47 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 48 | The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it . |
| 49 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 50 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 51 | When you find one of these giants embedded in the honey-coloured limestones of central England or the hard blue rocks of Dorset , you might think that such immense creatures could do little but lumber massively along the sea bed . |
| 52 | He did n't add that he had argued Frick 's case vigorously , had hammered the points home until they could do little but agree with him . |
| 53 | It is particularly unfortunate that in the absence of detailed excavations here , we can do little but hypothesize about the expansion of this small town . |
| 54 | Events moved so rapidly in 1939 that the Left in Britain could do little but point to the complete breakdown of the National government 's foreign policy . |
| 55 | If a large IED exploded near him , however , it would do little except keep him reasonably in one piece . |
| 56 | He knew Carter was lying , but at that precise moment he could do little except inspect the premises and then write up his notes . |
| 57 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 58 | ‘ Here , let me do that before you bust a gut ! ’ |
| 59 | Did you do that before you were full time ? |
| 60 | So we 've got ta do that before Jeremy can start . |