Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth nightly rob the dayrie |
| 2 | Well I want it done properly see and I said you got ta drill and all that . |
| 3 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 4 | All I 've done since seems to be walk around and knock on doors . |
| 5 | The differences come in what else it will do besides run DOS . |
| 6 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 7 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 8 | It needs space to throw the dice and this is not practical in planes and trains where it can do most to relieve the boredom of a long journey . |
| 9 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 10 | ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability . |
| 11 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 12 | Even France , the EC country that has done most to block progress on the Uruguay round , now at least seems willing to discuss specifics . |
| 13 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 14 | Californian neuroscientist John Lilly may have done most to bring Ketamine to our attention . |
| 15 | All those rules got forgotten , notably by Mr Lawson , who had done most to introduce them . |
| 16 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 17 | this bookline outlines these I have done some down in Wales , computer studies I have done most work well , I |
| 18 | It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power . |
| 19 | The rise of public concern about the environment has done most to hasten a realisation among Conservatives that Thatcherism has its limitations . |
| 20 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 21 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
| 22 | Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished . |
| 23 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 24 | Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election . |
| 25 | We would not have done so had the fee been £600 . |
| 26 | ‘ I did so after you left , and would have done so had you stayed . ’ |
| 27 | It is to be doubted , however , whether they would have done so had the Monarch exercised a wide personal discretion without seeking the advice of Conservative elders . |
| 28 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 29 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 30 | For example , asked to draw accurately a triangle with all the sides 6 cm long , 52 per cent of the boys were judged to have done so compared with 30 per cent of the girls . |