Example sentences of "[adv] do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me repeat Edmund Burke 's remark : ‘ Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little . ’ |
| 2 | It 'll only do A four . |
| 3 | That 's right , you can only do a pair or something . |
| 4 | A Lynx will only do a hundred and eighty mile an hour ! |
| 5 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle . |
| 7 | I better do a check for gas here . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd better do a report on that adhesive , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 10 | So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay . |
| 11 | After that I might do some washing — I 'd rather do a little each day than a large amount at once . |
| 12 | I would rather do a cross-word puzzle than try a revenue appeal . ’ |
| 13 | A resident at the C.I.C. hut could easily do a spot of rock-climbing , nip into Fort William to indulge in some leisurely shopping for tartan gonks and still be back in time for a sing-song round the primus stove . |
| 14 | Today we 'll just do a visualisation and try to remove what 's left of your father 's blocking device . ’ |
| 15 | Well I thought I 'd just do a freezer shop anyway — just the basics basically plus one or two Little Extras , just the odd thing Derek likes , just in case … |
| 16 | Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind the above information , it is always as well , when completing any design , to just do a quick bit of arithmetic before saving . |
| 18 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 19 | Sam ( RH ) : We could just do a year and everything but … you see … everything that might be happening then . |
| 20 | I 'll just do a I do n't know if any more petals will last . |
| 21 | Well I 'll just do a little trick . |
| 22 | Does n't matter we 'll just try , we 'll just do a little |
| 23 | The other thing might be do just do a questionnaire asking people about their attitudes to accents and dialects and |
| 24 | I 'd like you to just do a quick chemical test and let me know if that was a carbonate . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll just do a few sketches , ’ she muttered . |
| 26 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 27 | or and the cho , it has , this is , it has to be there by , we can actually just do a national curriculum report which gives a level , that 's all ! |
| 28 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 29 | That they are all up to date and er I 'll just do a final check up after the meeting . |
| 30 | Excuse me a second I 'll just do a quick |