Example sentences of "[coord] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed with The Times that imprisonment at the discretion of the creditor was a really powerful engine for extracting from the debtor any property he had concealed or done away with . |
| 2 | Did that come across to you er in whatever we said or or done so far ? |
| 3 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the landlord will say or do when 'e finds out , ’ she wailed . |
| 5 | The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château . |
| 6 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ If you do n't want or do n't have time to haggle , ’ says Mr Latif , ‘ you should make sure you buy your carpet , your jewellery , or your woodwork from a fixed-price store . |
| 8 | Erm , really its a question of , do we borrow or do n't we borrow . |
| 9 | Do you want to stay or do n't you ? |
| 10 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 11 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 12 | They argue that it is misguided to pretend that these proscribed organisations ( like Sinn Fein ) either do not exist or do not carry massive popular support . |
| 13 | For example , a duty to have children , or to limit the number of children one has , a duty not to send children to a private school , or to do so , a duty not to use private health services , or to do so . |
| 14 | For example , a duty to have children , or to limit the number of children one has , a duty not to send children to a private school , or to do so , a duty not to use private health services , or to do so . |
| 15 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 16 | The Arbitrators shall have power by their award to annul and/or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee or to do so subject to the performance of any conditions which they may think fit to impose . |
| 17 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 18 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 19 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 20 | It leaves a gap at the very centre of the knowledge which the rational procedures of the sciences are continually expanding , with nothing to fill it except deduction from principles themselves ungrounded , or habit , or religious or political emotion , or the Existentialist 's anguished leap in the dark , or doing as one pleases , or as convention or fashion pleases . |
| 21 | DO N'T CASTRATE TOO SOON , & DO N'T CASTRATE THE WRONG DOG ! |
| 22 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 23 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
| 24 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 25 | Should I get a car to NY and get on a plane tonight , or do tonight 's show and cancel the two tomorrow . |
| 26 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 27 | ‘ Sovereignty is not something that you either have or do not have , like a family heirloom which you take out and dust every now and then to make sure that it is still in your possession and still intact , ’ Sir Leon said . |
| 28 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 29 | In his article ‘ Sovereignty and interdependence : Britain 's place in the world ’ , he defines sovereignty as ‘ a nation 's practical capacity to maximise its influence in the world ’ and uses the metaphor of a ‘ bundle of sticks ’ , some of which are exchanged for others , to illustrate that ‘ sovereignty is not like virginity , something you either have or do not have . ’ |
| 30 | The rest do not know , or do not want to know , the extent to which the NCT has influenced every aspect of obstetric care . |