Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] do " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The betting shops got caught and did n't like it . |
| 2 | We asked our panel whether they had , ‘ in the last few days , noticed anything in particular that Mrs Thatcher has said or done ’ ; and similar questions about Kinnock , Steel , Owen , and ‘ other ’ ( unspecified ) Conservative , Labour , and Alliance leaders . |
| 3 | It is a conviction born of understanding , grounded solidly in the truth of who God is and what he has said and done . |
| 4 | Without any hesitation we can say that God is the answer to all doubt and that the largest part of doubting comes simply from ignorance of what God has said and done . |
| 5 | I do however point out that the passage in question does not in terms refer to any admissions policy which the school or local authority has adopted nor does it indicate any fixed way in which an appeal committee should approach the importance of such admissions policy . |
| 6 | Yes , derelict land has played and does play its part in the conservation of rare plants and animals in Britain . |
| 7 | However , in the past few years a class of antigens has emerged that does not conform to this conventional pathway of antigen presentation . |
| 8 | It would seem that the gal has gone and done a duet with REM mainman MICHAEL STIPE which is fetchingly entitled ‘ Trout ’ . |
| 9 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 10 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 11 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 12 | It gets collected and do n't get broken into and bloody generators stolen . |
| 13 | So you , you get distracted and do something else |
| 14 | He suggests we get married and do what Robert is doing — set up on our own . |
| 15 | It is just that community workers get paid and do not have to go to gaol ( Alex Robson of the 1930s NUWM in North Shields commenting on the work of CDP in the mid-1970s ) . |
| 16 | There was no intention to be insulting — quite the reverse — but it might readily be inferred that the defendant must have realised and did realise that his homosexual overtures might not be welcomed by the person at whom he was directing them . |
| 17 | Oh well I would have come and done those |
| 18 | However , once started on this track it may seem difficult to keep clear of rigorism , for it is unclear how the good one might have done but did not can be discounted from the things prevented by what one did instead . |
| 19 | You think of all the things you might have done and did n't . |
| 20 | To keep these politicians in their high office , he might have said but did not , he and his people sometimes had to deal with creatures just as nasty as Zack . |
| 21 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all I can think about , and whether I could have said or done anything . ’ |
| 23 | However , after the case was over I confess to having cheated and done what the voices of infallibility , myself among them , have said must not be done in construing legislation : I looked at Hansard . |
| 24 | Leaves are much hardier and will stand any amount of bad treatment , but having said that do n't try pressing damaged or nibbled leaves in the hope that they will look better once they have been pressed because they wo n't ! |
| 25 | Many men will have arrived at retirement having ‘ rotted away at other men 's doors and having said and done many slavish things ’ . |
| 26 | If we must only think " if " he met some accident while trying to investigate something he did n't like on one of the ships , he will have died while doing what he felt to be his duty , " I said . |
| 27 | Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought . |
| 28 | Well , said her mother , I should think you may have gone and done it now . |
| 29 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 30 | In his personal relationships with Athman , and his political stance on colonial oppression , Gide could claim to have said and done more than most at that time . |