Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 2 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 3 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 4 | And given that devices change as new models are introduced , there will then be a daunting support job to be done just to keep up with the market . |
| 5 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |
| 6 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 7 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 8 | They did eventually go out of the house but he was about done and then he comes in five to seven . |
| 9 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
| 10 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 11 | Our prices did not go up at the same rate . |
| 12 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 13 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 14 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 15 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 16 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 17 | In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear . |
| 18 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 19 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 20 | This time , Wilson did not go out in the street to wave goodbye nor did she weep . |
| 21 | The Lords of Trade asked merchants and other interests to give their opinions about policy ; a number of ministers had grants of their own for settlements in North America and clearly expected to benefit as landlords , though they did not go out like the Penns and the Baltimores to take an active role in running their properties . |
| 22 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 23 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 24 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 25 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 26 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 28 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |
| 29 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 30 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |