Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 2 | You ca n't go wrong , because I 'm so used to doing these operations that I can keep an eye on the cat 's breathing at the same time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw you , ’ she said , ‘ I was so pissed off Do you know what they said ? ’ |
| 4 | Some young people look upon drugs as a national industry : ‘ what is so awful about doing it if there is no other way of getting a job . ’ |
| 5 | His colleagues expected him to take sides ; he was only interested in doing his job . |
| 6 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 7 | ‘ There are many good bands in Africa ; they all want to come abroad but it is difficult to get visas and many promoters are only interested in doing just one tour . |
| 8 | You can not create a constitution just by writing on a piece of paper , as the French are so fond of doing . |
| 9 | ‘ Believe me , my young friend , there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about on floats . ’ |
| 10 | I am so angry with you , Lucy , and I love you so much for doing it . ’ |
| 11 | And of course there was people from the town then getting a job like holding like this and fella on the stage you see , they were n't regular men , but they were getting a job and so much for doing it yes , just the same . |
| 12 | she felt much happier about doing it |
| 13 | ‘ A 3D approach is much better for doing that . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , because the Bookman was so good at doing Endill 's homework , some of the teachers began to get suspicious . |
| 15 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 16 | So in ten or 15 years ’ time , when audiences are less capable of watching complex and difficult plays of language , the actors will also be less capable of doing them . |
| 17 | They 're not quite so committed to doing maths in the morning and English in the afternoon , whereas in a secondary school it is quite difficult to bring in something as that 's going to have such a dramatic effect as a micro without sort of the ripples actually perturbing things to a destructive degree . |
| 18 | The homing pigeon is extremely skilled at doing so . |
| 19 | It says the Department of Industry ( DoI ) and Department of Education and Science should earmark at least six universities as bodies especially suitable for doing industrial R&D . |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes everyone becomes so intent on doing things by the book , the real needs of the customer may be overlooked . |
| 21 | Well , even even people who perhaps are not so experienced in doing it in their personal lives can be influenced I think , especially when they are relating to children , to perhaps become more sensitive to that and the children in their care . |
| 22 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 23 | Sean was reportedly less chuffed about doing this than doing an ‘ ollie shove-it ’ , a very hard skateboarding manoeuvre — however , he did go on to break his leg in two places soon afterwards when he fell off said contraption . |
| 24 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 25 | What was the point of fighting him with words when she was utterly incapable of doing so physically ? |
| 26 | If a horse is being naughty then you have to punish him in some way — but do n't punish him if he does n't understand or is physically incapable of doing what you 've asked . ’ |
| 27 | But er I was always more interested in doing things with my hands , er P E , music , art , all the things you did n't have |
| 28 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 29 | But my principal aim is to help to create a mood in which individual teachers are more keen to push for their own changes , and to become more effective in doing so . |
| 30 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |