Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] do [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you truly believe , and if you 're inspired by a band — and you have to be inspired by something — then I think you should just do your homework , and just realise that life existed before Van Halen … ’ |
| 2 | Joseph Ford , frightened because he was about to fight his first real battle , worried that either he or his men might not do their duty and , as ever when worry overwhelmed him , he snatched off his spectacles and polished their lenses on his sash . |
| 3 | I 'll just do your desk top and whatnot and if you can ask Jess to clean the floor , alright ? |
| 4 | Yeah I 'd rather do it Monday . |
| 5 | What we 'd effectively do which code , what effectively do of course is we we trundle down here checking to see if any of these are set to one and if they are set to one we set a weight in memory . |
| 6 | I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work . |
| 7 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 8 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 9 | ‘ I changed things around because I was convinced the same 11 players could not do themselves justice over the next three weeks . ’ |
| 10 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 11 | The Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) survey found all manner of weird and wonderful reasons given by husbands as to why they thought women could not do their jobs . |
| 12 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 13 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 14 | I could still do my job , but my heart was n't in the day-to-day scramble for the latest pictures . |
| 15 | I could n't go out without him because we 'd agreed we 'd both do our share . |
| 16 | ‘ I did get some interviews but I would be so paralysed I could n't do myself justice . |
| 17 | Perhaps that was why it was being taken away from me ; I could n't do it justice . |
| 18 | And if you said , draw me a picture of a typical sentence , they could n't do it sort of , noun , verb , and probably another noun . |
| 19 | And , as I grew more frustrated at not getting the screenplays into production , and I saw Q bring his book out , I thought I could maybe do what Selvon did , but in our time . |
| 20 | A survey last year showed that a frightening proportion of child car seats would not do their job properly as they had n't been fitted correctly . |
| 21 | But it would not do you justice , or me justice , to say it was just that . ’ |
| 22 | And everybody there at that table knew that in the case of Shirley Harper 's mother , the phrase ‘ she does n't get out much ’ conveyed the distilled essence of a withdrawal so extreme that the term agoraphobia would hardly do it justice . |
| 23 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 24 | Yes — in fact , she remembered thinking that a touch of it would n't do her assistant any harm … |
| 25 | If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you . |
| 26 | They 'd tell you they would n't do your job , and you 'd tell them you would n't do theirs ! |
| 27 | He said : ‘ There is no reason why Norway ca n't do what Denmark did 10 years ago — dislodge England with an important victory . |
| 28 | The safety people ca n't do their job well . |
| 29 | He was saying they ca n't do their job they ca n't go out and get these proper bloody criminals |
| 30 | If you 've got teenagers , they ca n't do their homework unless they 've got the ra , the television on and the er , the Walkman at the same time . |