Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] do [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 2 | because then well that 'll just do service from there , but the only trouble about that is that . |
| 3 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 4 | He would willingly do homage to whoever was selected . |
| 5 | I see you will shortly do credit to my friend Belville as he has done you credit . |
| 6 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 7 | ‘ You can only do business in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling by being in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling , ’ says Mitchell . |
| 8 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 9 | We can hardly do justice to the wide scope of psychological theories here , but there are some basic ideas and assumptions which underlie such theorizing . |
| 10 | A summary can hardly do justice to the corpus as a whole , but it is easy enough to point to the settlement 's principal weaknesses . |
| 11 | No one can really do business on 40 quid a week . |
| 12 | Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past . |
| 13 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |