Example sentences of "[prep] do [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |
| 2 | Well real ones they 're a bit sort of do n't really go . |
| 3 | Whatever you think I look like does not necessarily represent the truth . ’ |
| 4 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 5 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |
| 6 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 7 | For one thing , the men she went with did n't usually have bathrooms with bidets , or loo seats in real Earth wood . |
| 8 | thing that you want to play with do n't just bring down any old thing |
| 9 | ‘ Believe me , my young friend , there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about on floats . ’ |
| 10 | Joshua fills out the details of the orders , but in doing so clearly reads God 's mind , for he comes in for no heavenly rebuke . |
| 11 | According to the legend , the sixties were awash with new social freedoms and sexual liberation ; thus , the mini-skirt inched its way ever further from the Plimsoll line of modern respectability — the knee — and in doing so subliminally exposed with the ostensibly gamine , but essentially coy , knock-kneed fashion poses , the easy availability of the female genitalia |
| 12 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 13 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 14 | It is rather sad that due to the subsequent rather narrow defeat of the motion that we find that such a large complement of Northern Labour MPs absented themselves from such a vital environmental vote due to prior engagements and by doing so thus failed to support their Labour colleague Kevin McNamara , the sponsor of the Bill , and failed to contribute to ending once and forever this sickening , depraved social pastime . |