Example sentences of "[conj] do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing she had said or done had altered his rigid beliefs , and she could n't prove her innocence without betraying Lori . |
| 2 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems : surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour . |
| 3 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems : surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour . |
| 4 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 5 | There was nothing more she could say or do to prove that what she had told him was the truth . |
| 6 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 7 | Leith knew he was bleeding a little inside , but she also knew there was n't a thing she could say or do to help . |
| 8 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 9 | Well to prepare the mill , we were erm concreting and or doing knocking all the old tables down and preparing get the er big saw table in , you know to diamond saw table in to cut the slate up . |
| 10 | At least one high-readiness multinational corps is expected to be a rapid-deployment force that could be sent from central Europe to keep the peace or do battle elsewhere . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ The nub of the matter is that MacQuillan never had the money to buy a paper in Fleet Street or do battle with the unions . ’ |
| 12 | The Society had received assurances just before the Council meeting from John Pitts , Chairman of the Legal Aid Board , that the Board had no plans to move towards competitive tendering , and that ‘ there can be no question of franchise holders being compelled to participate in any competitive tendering exercise and no question of franchise holders being excluded from legal aid work because they choose not to participate in any competitive tendering exercise or do tender and fail ’ . |
| 13 | In Levison v Farin [ 1978 ] 2 All ER 1149 it was held that it would not normally be enough " to make known the means of knowledge which may or do enable the other party to work out certain facts and conclusions " . |
| 14 | Amnesty 's mandate what , what the do n't do , or do do . |
| 15 | Or do test tubes , sperm banks and surrogate mothers bring more problems than they solve ? |
| 16 | No I 've I mean , I know that in the primary schools nowadays they do allow , or do let the ki the children actually write their own reports as well . |
| 17 | of taxis that never arrived , or did arrive |
| 18 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |
| 19 | Or did do mind you I I would n't think it now not for younger folk that 's not the case but for the older folk it very much worse . |
| 20 | Since the tense markers in JC are not verbs , but invariant particles , there are no syntactic grounds for identifying British English did ( the past tense of do ) with Creole did ( a past tense marker , but not the past tense of do , which would be en , bin or did do ) . |
| 21 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 22 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 23 | The authority refuses or did refuse to consider me as a supply teacher in nay capacity until six months had passed . |
| 24 | So did you t did you like it in Ireland , I mean , did did you like it when you lived in the Republic of Ireland or did Did you like living there ? |
| 25 | And while many Victorian villas and large , early twentieth-century suburban houses have , or did have , extensive gardens with fountains and follies , they have been surprisingly little studied . |
| 26 | Bid array also has an odd local cult , or did have , for I am not sure that it is still practised , in the worship of a headless and anonymous saint in a cave nearby . |
| 27 | OK he tackles hard , has a fierce shot ( or did have ) but he just has n't got it anymore . |
| 28 | My dad ha , or did have . |
| 29 | If you will need to relate what someone said or did take time beforehand to remember it clearly and note it down . |
| 30 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |