Example sentences of "do [indef pn] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RCA , in particular , using a non-laser disc system , found that linear movies on disc were simply not sufficiently attractive to consumers to encourage them to buy hardware systems that could do nothing else than playback such movies . |
| 2 | Maybe there are cases when you can do nothing else than support the . |
| 3 | The main factor that links unemployment and poor health is poverty , and workfare will do nothing here unless people are paid more than they would receive on benefit . |
| 4 | Thank you , I shall do nothing further than read out erm , a list of all the officers who erm , President Vice President , the Right Honourable Dr Leslie Mr Peter , the Honourable Kenneth and Vice President Alan . |
| 5 | It does but it might also do the gas might do something else as well . |
| 6 | Ability to actually do something rather than just copy something to follow instructions means they 've got to actually do a ste step-wise thing . |
| 7 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 8 | Glancing at the table , she saw that the girl had done everything just as she had shown her … the big brown teapot had pride of place in the centre of the table , with the pretty rose-patterned milk jug and sugar bowl beside it . |
| 9 | I can not do anything else except for saying my paternoster and my creed to Christ , for my sins … " ) |
| 10 | But he smiles back — of course — because he ca n't do anything else for he is ill at ease , they are ill at ease and they all drown in smiles that suffocate . |
| 11 | Well if you 've had enough that 's it then we 'll lose it and we do n't do anything else cos we ca n't keep doing that leaving half a bits and that , this and that |
| 12 | Smith , the British No 23 from Staffordshire , could hardly do anything right as Croft raced to a 4-0 lead and broke service four times en route to the first set . |
| 13 | I hope it might help others who , like me , would do anything rather than latch off ! |
| 14 | I 'd do anything rather than offend you , you know . |
| 15 | She 'd do anything rather than drive it at first . |
| 16 | Unskilled activity is to do everything rather than to do nothing . |
| 17 | Capirossi realises the pressures of success could so easily damage his plans to retain the 125 crown , and so he 's all the more determined to do everything just as he did in 1990 . |
| 18 | It has to do something else as well . |
| 19 | You are consciously suppressing , your ego is consciously making a decision not to do something even though you know you want to do it . |
| 20 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 21 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 22 | I think , I think actually , I think they will try to do something actually because if they , if they do away with the loans thing |
| 23 | Erm so you have to do something now before you actually retire . |
| 24 | You have to do something quickly before you see your mum . |
| 25 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 26 | They were trapped in each other 's company , each one wanting to break away , to do anything rather than stay there together , but none of them would risk being thought unfeeling , or odd . |
| 27 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 28 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 29 | Do you want me to do anything else while I 'm up up and about ? |
| 30 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |