Example sentences of "not do very " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not do very well on any test of strength , stamina , or suppleness . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told cabinet colleagues , ‘ We can not do very much , but we can seem to be very busy — and that is half the battle nowadays . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , they do not do very much at all . |
| 4 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 5 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 6 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 7 | They usually can ; but they do n't do very well in the marathon four days later ! |
| 8 | The reason unforgiving strategies do n't do very well is that they ca n't break out of runs of mutual recrimination , even when their opponent is ‘ remorseful ’ . |
| 9 | He did n't do very much wrong at the other holes , either , but to carve up one of the trickiest par-5s in an Open , to those figures , and with those conditions , well it showed how his game was at Troon in 1962 . |
| 10 | ‘ We did n't do very well , ’ admits Greg Searle . |
| 11 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
| 12 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 13 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 14 | If you think about a baby coming out bottom first , it ca n't do very much for its hips can it ? |
| 15 | On the whole , DOS spreadsheets perform faster and need less in the way of resources to work properly — but that 's because they do n't do very much with those resources until you start to use the graphics facilities they offer . |
| 16 | I did n't sleep the night before the exam because of nervous tension , however , so I did n't do very well . |
| 17 | Basically it 's small because it does n't do very much ! |
| 18 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 19 | He did he did n't do very much but I 'd already learnt the business by then . |
| 20 | I did n't do very important part of it because erm , it was , sometimes you 'd get the same sort of schedule . |
| 21 | I mean I 'm gon na try and give , the first two guys and er Mike who came in , they did n't do very well cos they did n't actually mention that bit and it did n't flow from then on , you 've got ta make the point , you know , did you find that er well not did you , that 's bad phraseology , I 'm sure you found this beneficial which of the areas of the five tonight actually interest you the most do that bit and then go in with the fact that you actually mentioned earlier on that you do work on a recommendation basis . |
| 22 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 23 | and the parents are coming after school , oh that 's fine she said , we do n't do very much |
| 24 | In fact , we 're disappointed with it cos usually we have vegetables out of our own garden all the year round but they did n't do very well this year did they ? |
| 25 | One of the questions erm , there was a one of the categories was quiz shows so I thought well I , I do n't , I wo n't do very well here cos I just do n't watch enough and one of the questions was , who was the helper on erm My , on Take Your Pick ? |
| 26 | You can live without meat but you would n't do very well without vegetables . |
| 27 | Well would n't do very much well at that cos too short . |
| 28 | I would n't say that in case you do n't do very well |
| 29 | You did n't do very well over the weekend , did you , 'cos I was watching them and they did n't do that well . |
| 30 | There 's only one awake and he ca n't do very much , and I just do n't know what to do with them . |