Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 2 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 3 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 4 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 5 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 6 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 7 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 8 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 9 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 10 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
| 11 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 12 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 13 | She did not go to bed . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 15 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 16 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
| 17 | Both the housing department and housing associations had helped with accommodation , and the social work team had started luncheon clubs and drop in centres for people with learning disabilities who did not go to day centres . |
| 18 | But all did not go to plan . |
| 19 | I M P A C which was formed to protect the pensioners had threatened an injunction if they did not go to Court . |
| 20 | So the dockers did not go to prison and the strikes were avoided . |
| 21 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 22 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |
| 23 | In the process the essay will attempt to explain why a nationalist movement did not ascend to power earlier , and the reasons for its success when it did . |
| 24 | The poor spawning facilities were responsible for the lack of smaller bream , and the lack of an excess of natural food made sure a successful brood did not grow to specimen weight . |
| 25 | Ls9 , the octamer peptide derived from ls6 by removing the C-terminal residue was not recognized : ls9 did not bind to HLA-B53 in the assembly assay ( Table 2 ) . |
| 26 | The virus did not bind to phOx-BSA-coated or uncoated tissue culture wells , nor did psi2-DCNeo virus bind to NIP.BSA . |
| 27 | He admitted the offences but did not return to court for sentencing . |
| 28 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 29 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 30 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |